SCHOOLBOY COMPOSITION.
The following is one of the many specimens of composition that have of late become so fashionable as "specimens" of schoolboy composition. Tne American writer who invented a Westera dialect for his stories has given the world mach anv-isenuut, and so we oust pardon the writers who give us spicy "s di iolb ty's compositi. >n." L't the end justify tne means, only remembering that the end is to be a lau-Jjh,' not an attack on school misters. Tuis one is said to be written by a New Zealand school boy. Tne subject is
4 breath,' ani ths is how lie writes: Breath 'S itiile of air. Wj hreatie .vitli our oar liver, and our kidneys. Jf it wasn't for our breath wo would die wuu wd sbpt. oir •reath be p< tha life a.jii i* through tue nose w leu we are asleep. B >y< thai stay in a room all day an >uld aao breathe ; they s;n>ui I waif, till tajy gat oil', of d >ors. -B :ys iu a rvrn uuKe bit, auvaol s»iu air; uwy uufci ear'i(niicid..'. . ..0-*rb)iiiijidMS i> >is mar tiau iiid I >,irs. A. .leap »f sj;die.'d was in a dhjlc iiole in la ha, aul a cirojaL'id* got in tli at Ui-re bole aul neiriy kiilol everyone af ji*j uuruiujf. Gu'U kill the. .uorilr.ii vvitu coronets t.ia<, squJt!Z3 ths liigran. Girls can't boll r or nu hk' boys l>3jause. tieir diagram is sjue-z-d coo mic i. It' £ .vas a girl L iial rather ne a b»y <o I can run aud uoller aud have a tfreat diagram.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 3, 31 January 1890, Page 3
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266SCHOOLBOY COMPOSITION. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 3, 31 January 1890, Page 3
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