A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1305, 5 April 1883, Page 4

A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

Evaar student of nouns, pronouns, and verb knows the necessity of transposing language for the sake of ascertaining Its grammatical construction. The following shows twentyeight different readings of on. of Gray’s well-known poetical lines, yet the sense is not affected :— The weary plowman plods his homeward way. The plowman, weary, plods his homeward way, His homeward way ths weary plowman plods, His homeward way the plowman, weary, plods, The weary plowman homeward plods his way, The plowman, weary, homeward plods bis way, His way the weary plowman homeward plods, His way, the plowman, weary, homeward plods, The plowman, homeward, plods bis weary way, Hi« the plowman, homeward, weary His homeward, weary way the plowman plods, Weary, the plowman homeward plods his way, Weary, the plowman plods his homeward way, Homeward, his way the weary plowman plods, Homeward, his way the plowman, weary, plods, * Homeward, his weary way, the plowman plods, The plowman, homeward, weary plods his way, His weary way the plowman homewards plods, His weary way homeward the plowman plods, His weary way homewards plods the plow, man, His weary way, the homeward plowman plods, Homeward the plowman plods hie weary „ wa y,, , Homeward the weary plowman plods hie way, The plowman, weary, his way homeward! plods, The plowman, plods his homeward weary way, The plowman plods his weary homeward way, 1 * owm * n 8 homewards homeward way the plowman