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Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 September 1896, Page 2 (Supplement)

Everybody knows, says a Melbourne paper, that PiotVssor Morris is essentially a thorough man. When he takes up a subject he wrestles with it for till that he or it is worth At present he is tiking mom, noon and night exercise with the derivation of the Ausira'iui word " larrikin " Contrad'otory accent's have been given to him by correspondents, and lie has searched old Argus records of the police court, but without arriving at anything tangible r.s to the origin of the woid " l.inikin." He never loses an opportunity of searching after the missing link-word, and as he found himself in a suburban railway carriage recently seated opposite t> an intelligent looking young colonist,', the professor thought lu would try whether amongst the specimen of the genus itself be might not gain some information. With a suave glance he broke the ice—" It is curious how the pedigrees of words become lost, and what a difficulty there is in tracing them to their birth. I suppose now you couldn't give the pedigree, birth or derivation of Larrikin '.''' "Can lit you first ("op," said the young man. " He's by Young Panic out of a dam by Young Australia." "' 1 am afraid you do not understand," broke iu the professor. "Not understand?'' was the 1 contemptuous rejoinder. " You can't puck me for iiilorin stion. Why I put a ipiid on him when he was at twelves, and lord, didn't he just Waltz ill to-day?" The prof s.,or changed carriages at. the next station.