A BOY'S ESSAY ON VEGETARINAISM

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 219, 10 September 1887, Page 2

A BOY' S ESSAY ON VEGETARINAISM

A vegetarian is a person that doesn't ejitcow. 1 like cow fried in a skillit. We ha\e fried coav afc our hou^e sometimes. It eats good to mustard. A vegetarian lives on; carrots and turnips and such. He don'tt eat no chicken or salmon. He must be sort of mad. I liko to gobble turkey and gravy. But our old turkey tried to gobble me. He is a vegetaiian too. He lives on corn. I put poison in bin brcakfar>t, and then he, died on corn. He won't never be a vegetarian no more. Pa says he is a vegetarian,, but I think it must be between meals.The elephant Jumbo is a vegetarian and' lives on biscuits, cigars, and nails, and k such things. All our ancestors were vegetaiians The monkey lived on nuts and. the donkey ate thistles. Nebukadnayeer was a vegetatiau too. He ate grass just like a spotted cow. He never pared hie. nails, and they grew into long claws like the eagle's in the menagciie. My brother. Bob was a vegetarian for four days. Oiv the fifth he didn't eat no cabbage nor parsnips, and said that mutton chop was a good enough vegetable for him, and he has been a kind of ham and e^ vegetarian evex* since. My sister Emma tried very hard to» be a vegetarian one day, but she gave it upj at dinner. She said it was a pity beefsteakwasn't a vegetable, else she'd have hold on» a little longer. Apple pie and! plum) pudding are the vegetables I like best, but* when I grow up I intend to become a vegetarian, and to eat vegetables regularly to,» my meat."

This is what Beccher said of the Sunday question .-—"There are many people \vho> think that Sunday in a sponue to -wipe out, all tho sins of the week." William Stanley, the man so well-known' in connection with the Mount Rennie trials, has been arrested in Sydney on a ehaige of forgery. King Pomare Y. of Tahiti has been divorced by his Queen j quite a comic opera incident.