A TOUGH YARN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 251, 4 September 1902, Page 3

A TOUGH YARN.

TO THE EDITOR. SIB,—In your Tuesday’s issue appeared a letter by one Steve Boreham. in which the writer appears to be having an abstruse argument with himself about horsecovers and needles. Poor Steve, old age seems to be telling its ruthless tale, and a once splendid intellect appears to be tottering on the verge of dissolution. One hardly knows whether to pity his apparent imbecility or to be angry at his "Munchausen” stupidity. Truly the same S.B. is not a schoolmaster, or he would not have spelled "Dimio” with a small " d.” But why try vaingloriously to impress upon the public such a self-evident fact? Rather let Steven enlighten us as to how long it would lake a tradesman to make a bag cover. I once heard of a ehearer-enm-horsecover maker working for a Morven cockie, who took ten hours to make a bag cover, and after it was made the farmer saw that the only hope he had of setting it on a horse was to take an axe and pare the rough corners off his quadruped. However, he told me it came in bandy for repairing the roof of his pigetye. If S.B. will take off hie coat and make twenty-four full-riggers io eight houre I will give £lO to any local charity he may name, provided my name dees net appear. Ido not wish to receive the adulation of the public. Virtue is ite own reward, and the conscion mess of having done a good act suffices. You have my authority ao pay the tenner when the contract ie finished. —I am, etc;, Rhinoceros.