SWITZERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 192, 12 October 1871, Page 5

SWITZERS.

(To the Editor.) Mister Edttur — Sts, — Foarks er makkin er greart din abart edikashun, and t' Katliliks are sayin t'iey'll hae wuii thing, and t' Protestants are sayin t'iev'll hae another, an t' Church ov [nglan 1 msn doa^nt naw what they'll hae. Well, nah, Mister Editur, 'am nobbut a' plane soart o' feller, yer naw, and varry likely my observashuns vvoernt be thowt much on-by ye lamed foarks ; but, for all that, I doernt see wah I sud'nt hae my say as weel as :iny*other on em. And, ter tell yer t' irewth. Mister E litur, I think that e-likas'iun is runniu rather wild in these days.

Wen I wer er lad, I wer edikated till I war ten years old, and, I assewer ye, that I left skooil as far larnt as mony on em. And I think that t 1 edikashun my feyther irah me sud dew weel enuf fer er ftllsr that hez to mak his livvin by hard work. Nah, yer naw, T've been readin yar paerper ivver sin I wer on Gabriels. I kud read it at first up tv t' mark, but lately yer've hed so mony fine skollars writin letters ter yer, that raakkin out their meernin gets arder and arder ivvery week. It's nobhut er munth er too sin. that t 1 Editur ov t' " Bruce Herald " — him that says

Reed and Bradshaw hey sold t' land", but didn't meen ter sell it, but wer foarst to sell it ter pay their own sallaries, and ter keep Mak. and t' other fellers out — as I sed, t' Editur o' t' " Bruce " .wer gettin em ter write in what the y call broad Skotch, and than I kudn't mak t' o.le on't out, yet. I kud mak sense o' moarst on't. But t' new skollars . as write 1 ter yer, mjx in we their writin bits o' queer stuff, which yer print in _er soart o' writin lettersy.'and which I kapnb make onnj th? ng on. : - ' -, './•■;.' cv I Jjtae ter ask for- I'' ime'ernun, and j then 1 - t*.fell€?rst faff o-t me'r. and say it's-F.-eifch,' or Greek, or Latin, or something o' that soart. Nar, : Mister E litur, wun o'< t' writers last week -called ";J"unius " — tliey tell mer that .Jiinius »rar wb»fc they "call «r klassikal

kove— finished we er bit which I copy agern for yer. It wav, Qwt homines, toi sententia. (Please print it in t' proper karakfer- 1 .) When I asked em up t' town w lat it ment, they sed, | lulte at t. dikshunery." I luked, an. l it sed, "So many men, no many oninions." Nar, yer naw, I doant believe owt o' t' soart ; for, when I wer in Queensland, and my mate and me hed run ominust dry at t' quartz reefs, he sed, " Bill, hadn't we better skiddaddle out o' this ?" "I, I," sed I ; and so, tho' we wer too, we wer o' wun opinion ; and boath gay t' storekeepe * t' slip fore he new what o'clock it v/au. And I beleive t' dikshunery must be wrong, and that t' feher that rit it didn't urderstand t' Greek at all.

Mister Editur, if this is t' way edtkashun ia darn ter karry us on t' du^uis, T tell ver w'xai — I sarnr support t' CatMi»R, or Protestants, or C'.iurch ov Inuland men, or Fox, or ony on em. I'll subscribe ter no mnrc entertainments for t' skooil funds, when edikas^un tn itches foarks not ter write plane Tn-ilish. I write plane Tnglish, thow t' spellin may be bad ; and they sail learn em ter write same as inysen, or I'l 1 not support em. Or else, for sewer, if yer t'linlr a feller smaks better \v°s writin about Qiot homines, well, I'm oppen ter conviks'iuu, and mny ehan<rß my mind. I m&pn no offense ter "Jnnins" all the si me. I expect he thinks we're all as larnt as hissen. Tak no notis o' mv snellin, for I naw I've forgotten moast out. I am, wisliin thirs finds ver weel enuf, Bill Weller. October 6, IS~I.