HUMILIATED.
.A country editor was made to writhe inkeenest humiliation of snirifc on receipt of the following criticism on tho conduot of Lis paper by a wb» scriber: "Dare Sur—l hereby offer my resignashun as a subscriber to your paper, it being a pasphlet of such Bmall konsekence as not to benefit mv family by takin'of it. What you need in your sheet is branes an' someone to ruasel up knews an' rite eddy toryali oa live topicks, No menshion has been made in your shete of me butcherin' a polaod cbiny pig weigbin'- 369 pounds, or of the gaps in the chickens out this way, Yon stenjualy ignore the fact that the later bugs' is eatin', things up •out here, an' say nothin' 'bout Hi Simpson's Durham bull calf breakin its legg fallin' down a well, of of grandma- Sipes. bavin' the sore legs, Two important weddin's here has been uterly igknored by your columns, an' a two-kolumn obitchuary, writ by m? on: the detb oi grandpa Henry, was left out of your shete, to' say nothin' of a alfabetical poem be* ginnin 1 wifcb." Ais tor andy and also Ark," writ by my darter. This is why your shete is u'npopler herei I( you don't want eddytoryals from this placo and ain't goin' to put no.news in your shete we don't want said shete, ' Youru in disgust, . -HIRAMDOAKB. P.S,—lf you print .that qbitohuary in your next isoo Iniay sign again. for your shete.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2501, 15 January 1887, Page 2
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245HUMILIATED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2501, 15 January 1887, Page 2
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