HUMAN NATUR'.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1939, 22 March 1875, Page 4

HUMAN NATUR'.

For art may err, but nature cannot miss. '•■•'' ;•■'■' —Shakespeare,

Being a kind of literary vagabond, I read; the P&P ers > and my sense of humour has been excited to an unusual extent by the comical rivalry of the Ohinemuri " specials." Their energetic abuse of one another is quite refreshing ; the bitter irony, and sarcastic taunts, are likewise edifying; £ One correspondent, considerably agitated in mind because the opposition has drawn on his imagination to the extent of'three columns, when he (the first) has reported an utter dearth of(oews, religiously condemns the opposition for a man who rejoices in misrepresentation as a child in mother's milk. The opposition sees.this :. he probably has it brought to him by some considerate acquaintance who likes, to make everybody as happy as. himself; and the opposition will smile a sickly smile of indifference, but nevertheless goes for ' special-the-first in his next budget, and therein denounces him as an idler who isn't by any means up to his work. If these literary Sampsons can so far descend from the dignified elevation to which their, inordinate self - esteem has raised them, as to receive advice from Puck, they will endeavour to improve their minds by a study of common sense, instead of making such a palpable exhibition of their vanity and petty jealousy. I feel that I have acquitted myself of a duty. I have recently become acquainted with a man who has betrayed a developement of energy and perseverance of a kind most" astonishing. Mr Bowels, having been told by his confidential medical man that he would derive great benefit from the use of tobacco, at once procured himself a pipe, a pound of tobacco, and a dozen boxes of matches. The result of his first smoke was a total derangement " of his intestinal machinery and a fearful attack of sickness. ■ But he persevered and swore that he never, never, never » would be a slave to the tricks of an uti-^ ruly stomach. He kept it up» for six months, and vomited daily during all that time*, and twice on Sundays. He then-began tp think that it was, a- decree y.pi providence that he. should not smoke, and he gave it up. This was a noble attempVthough. It is perfectly appalling-to think of, thenldiurnal agony which the gallant Bowels mustly^re endured during his-six-months' experience of smoking. . " Puck. :