CHURCH BUILDIN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 233, 7 February 1880, Page 2

CHURCH BUILDIN.

TO- THE EDITOR OP JTHE TEMUKA LEADER." , { Siu,--l ain't mu« r h oT H-Bcholl.Vrcl; wlhopes'as- you'll- mistakes as I LwikeS.iirthis-letter, jvvjiich I. think it's a -pity as you shouldn't know all-af Imsbeena goin'on here lately. There's • been fine doin'a, sir, I jdo." assure youy" and I don t kuow as lean rignily t;VI all alxmt it, bi.t how some ver I'll try. ~ . . / Well, sir,' \o begin at -the beginnin , tor 1 always did -like- to go to the root of a matter, you must know- as I live a good ways oft-Temuker, and.it ain't. vtry : often cb I goes thers but one day';Tdid pljuckiip my. sperrits, r and|l set off, and you may believe I was' tired afore I got any ways near,,and I wisht I hadna: come,;b.ut while I was thin king whether, I. should go / 'on; or gO' liome'agen,; I hoars' some one up behind me, "and I turns round to see who ; , it --* as, it might be some one as T knW4j -Ilfun Out.as it wax a stra'ngefibut I did not mind that, for I like_s "a'bir "of talk, .and I ain't no ways proud, so we soon begun to chat abo'nt different things, and thev'yitiiig woman -says t# me, Do you . know.'maa'm,, -she says' (f<s-hhfiAviiirWif jirotty behaved I will. know,' she says, as they're 'a-gonY; ip build, a "c'linn-VVflt- Ttfmnker ?"-"- ;! '<"'/'-• ' ■■..'■-. ■•, , v( WelljT'sayp, it would ho,a good thmg to bnikl achureh if it would. people spnie bcuter ways.-' 1..'. "~3?c's, says the* womahV" and "there is. to .he* and a f-or.y, arid the-money "as" they gets is" to'elp to build the.- cliur'h. '-._ ' : A bezar and a soery, I says, what kind ..of.thinzs.is v » ■ Well, she says'; K.beznr's where theyJgoes to.bny things just' the sainja as idiopp, only ..they charges <\v.er !f?o much more-for 'em, and tfrey 'a? all pretty yoing ladies behind the counters —and a sorry ■ means n tpa« ; . .; Oh, now I knows what y.qu means, I' : says--y-we'd.- used, rto .'-nvo.., ioa-frrieetihs' at 'nine, I ( s:»o*s, > n ' I 'aven't a been to one. this liiariy; a year, so I'll go, imd take all the children. •""' '*'■''- "* \ ..,.,.. • Well,-she fays id go , early, for . they expec.3 so many people* as "the big room "at the'btel won't hardly-Hold 'e'rrt Kll. ' : '' : ''-' : . "- "' : ■'*■'-■■' "

What,'l ways, the hotel? I says, and, if yon.believo. me, sir, I, screemed out so loud,'l made iier jump again, then lup and giveher a bit of myniindi .: "' ■" .1 Rays, W.e11,.1 says, what .nnust I do 1 -I 1 ' .wiints to go ttf thV 'sorry, a'sjy.oh calls-it, but I don't like'to' ; go to'the piiblic 'otise, j% says./'l've been a teototler all irny life, and I taught all the children the some, an' n >w thfoy'lhsay-to me, You ajlus tbld (is as <ve ■p hou'Wh't go to the pu'blie.'ons'ep, and how you're; a.^goin'.to take us to it, an' I don'tthink,: I says', as it would be- ; comfortable in theptibiic 'ouso an \ve should be ih'one-a-oom, 'aying tea, an/ the pnrsbns a-makin' speeches, and praps some- tipsy fellers jn the .next' room wool: be a-daneiti' -ridV 3\vearin' and a sin gin' 'l'd.be a and su'chjf'an': 'ow"can you '.tell as they won't come rampy.gin' into the rqom -where we'm all a silting, enjoyin' our cup of tea pe.xi eiMe and quiet Hkp, and then, I sayp, there's another thing, I says, a> ttfng-1 don't likp the idea of,' as is this 'ere—my 'usband, though he'n a real good'un when, lie stops' at 'ome, he can't go by a public house, an' when he goes in h'e'eannot get out agen till his pockets is empty, and if,l. ;takes him to'the 'ot 1 to-*get his ha, I'll bo' . b&md.he'U give me".the --slip, an' 1 shan't see him no more till we wants to go 'ome, an' then hb'il be so drunk, he'll upset the dray in the. creek, and then he'll say it wss all my' faulty because I knowed as the public'oiise was-1 alius ioo many for him, an' I didn' 4 ; in business for to a took him there, and.dfin't,you think, I says, as there is not no otlitr place as they could 'ave it in. IE there wasn't, I clout think as I could go to the 'otel to it There's preachih' alius in the school-room, which its a very nice room, an' plenty big enough for alias goes- • to- it t or wants to go, as ever I eared, an' I think, I; says'/as'they might a-h ad it there, but, I says,- the most properest thing to dr> would a-been not to a had any bezar and sorry'at all yet, but to a-waited, an'for some on 'em to a ome round, to the, 'ouse, an" a-asked us to give summat. I ain't get much, but I'd a-give what I could* an'. I knows, .more.. as. J, thinks would a-dono the same, an' 'then they could a-built the church," and when it was built we could a 'ad'the bezar an' the sorry in it,.under,our. own vind and , fig-tree, as you might, an' make us, afraid.

' Well,' she says, them is vdry true wfbjrdsfi but I ain't a goin' no furder on this toad,' s'ho myßf-80. I wishes you a,goottda,y;'so she turned into a 'ouse as stood just there, and I walked on,, over what I'd cared. . ■ ■ _■ . -, ■ - ,•

Well, sir, you may be sure I didn't let no grass grow under my feet till I got..'ome agen, for I thought if. I didn't get to.spm.er place where I could spit it all out, I should bust; au' all. the way - as I' went I hep- a•'saying to myself, This beats all Ipver- did 'ear tell, of—we'm a-goin' to build a church and we goes to the. public louse for to get 'the money'io do* it, an' parson he'll tell us as how we shouldn't go to'sich places. When I got say nothin' to my husband, but I sllpt off, un- . heknownst, to my daughter's house, which . she.lives.just" across the creek, an' tellsjher all about it, an' she says, I think I'll go, she "says. I did, ji 11.1.couldto persuade her not to, but it wasn't a bit of use—go'she would, and go she did, I didn't go, but site told me wheiv she. coma, back what she'd seenand earfcd. , •. The bezar'-wasibenutiful, an' so was the band as was playin'oufside.so loud, enough . .toina-ke one ; 8 'ead ache. There was plenty of-people at the bezar, an' they all seemed to 'ave plenty of money, for all the distress as there's bef-n a court of the Flood,. for they was a-buyin' up tho thirigs'-'lik'e -mad. Well, by-and-by, they all gv over to the Ryal 'Otol to get their teas, for it- seems as tliey thought if they 'ad the bezar. an'. sorry all in one house, them as kep' the other house' would be jellus, so they fixed to h ive the beza-r at tho Crown 'Otel, and the- SOiiy at tho liyalj so, as I was sayin', they goes oyer to get their teas —an' .there' was"a. tea set out surely—bread an'., butter, plum, cake, 'am sangwidges, jam' tart's, 'an'" blammonges—leastways that's what they said they was—an' almost anything you like to name. So they soon bogun to pour out the tea, and Dorothy—that's my daughter—she sat down by one I

of the tables, where she see there was a lot of goodthings, begun to look al>onther, and she sees a man come' in, , an' she says to the "woman as eat nox,' to her: Who's that ? she says,- an' ;the 1 woman says :*ioi» '/he's a parson, sho sfvps, .but, she s.iys,'''you'd better -get your tea, else it'll all':be coldi sho says, Doiothy she was waitin' fprthe grace to be sung or said 1 or'somethin'i like we'd used ,to 'ave it at 'ome'4,.b.ut'; when she see as they was all a-eaiin' an' driukin', she just said: For what we're ajigoin'.to xeceive in lier 'art, quiet-like, an':fell to like tlie restj' an.' a very good .tea she made too. So, when the tea was done^:Dorothy thought there'll surely'be some oneus'll return thanks; an' presently there dida-'geirtleman get up, but rre clid'ht ;dbe only- -told 'em as they could go back, to , the bezar, while the tables were cleared off. ' So' they 'went, and when they come back the set, an' the pianner was unt'r'overed, ai/ everything was . ready. Dorothy, she gets a good front place where she could hear all the speeches, for she'waki-veyy-r.fond »c-f-'eai;int the pardon r speak at the tea meetiris'. They allays 'ad such funny tales to tell, but she never : made a biggerjnisjake in her life, for there .waa'nt no 'parsons there—only him . as\ she'd seed come in—an'he went nway as sboh as he'd 'ad his tea, without a rword, to one, and there was'nt-noi. r .speep.hes neither,, and when the first sihgin' was, Dorothy sho thought it was the queerest him as sliefd eared,;an' she could'nt find, •.itih-hejhim book-no ways; but she did'h't lo'ik'ldng, for' she soon fun' oqt ,as it a him. "Well, then, some young . ladieV'played on the piai:h'er ah then there wap more singin' an' playin', *bjtt' never->a speech,' an' Dorothy she got'qiiiti tire#, anVghid enough she was:when "God Save . • the Queen " was give- out to be " sung, an' yr-aa .let.to go 'drne, leastw'.-iys, them as liked ; "for, iwhat I can't, •-/Dorothy • -either,: though" -she" Vows> she ~eared 'e.m say .it—as they was - ngoin' to 'ave.a.balK' •She'says it's''as', true as- :the >s.tm,., as 'one- -jof ..the .gentlemen did get up, an' he .says,: I'm very much obliged .to.yoti':alii 1 lie''says; for youjr good be- • haTionr, hofsays, which- you've behaved nmeh better than I expected them ladies'as made the tea,, an' them .as drunk HV;an*'how - !.we're 'agoin to-'aVt'a ball.", ' ' Dorothy, she, did'nt stay to the- ball ; she" does'nt know how .to < dance,'- an'" 'besides she-did'nt think it was an' no more don't I. I allays usejd-to ifaiok ■m rhuildin' churcla? was-reh'gus works, tot it sherds as ft ain' so. .ih.ou.ght .else, if it was,' they'd a'ad some } arsons at the s'orry,and they'd a.iiado suph speeches, the parsons would, I mean, : an'; there'd abeen.jsonie hims sung, 'stead.- ; of there was;-as: would ad qne > the-people •sonie good an'a warptjed theiit ; 'arts ; an' ; the last singi» ,Snvo ( the . Qu.ejm." hut " Praise Gdd|fi*om< '-whom all Blessings Flaw\"an' tiiey.would'nt ' a'ad it in the 'ptei; an' I'm surtin - sure' as ..they-would'u.'sa r finished up ..with a ball';. : an' if. yon takes Satan's tools to r do : God's woilc with, you can't "expect" as.it should prosper..',, jvl: ..... ; ~ " 7-..''"■'•' "" x So no "more «"t pt-c'snnt from "..".'.'„ . . '.,"",■ ' -YoiuV'JJmbel Servant, . ',*"; -. .Pni/DiiNCE DrjnWatep/." •

K^v-riVi '_• \bW as the'" only parson as, cm»ie to the/teaV-tbough. he 1 away whifejhe.music jyas,' Jie.cpme baclc.to.. th.e dajacni'.—P.lb'. '._■■' ."-.;"". I ..'..■.•.; :•'•