ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
M. 6-., Ohutu.—You are wrong; the lines you refer to were written by James Russell Lowell, the well-known. American poet and literateur, and appear in the Papers." The verse you quote from runs, as follows:
"Ez for war, I call is murder— There you hev it plain and flat r I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that. " Ef you take a sword and dror And go and stick a feller thru Gov'mcnt ain't to answer fer it, God'l] send the bill to you." _1
"Downhearted."—The phrase, "Are we down-hearted? No!" is not an outcome of the present war, but came into vogue in England towards the close of the general election of January, 1906. and seemed fo have originated in a speech by Mr Joseph Chamberlain, at Smithwiek, on January 1(1, 1006, in which he said. "We are not downhearted, buo we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours."*"
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Taihape Daily Times, 13 May 1919, Page 4
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158ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Taihape Daily Times, 13 May 1919, Page 4
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