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f : (To the Editor). • • Cir, —Being as I'm no scliolard myself I take up my pen for to arst you ■ •—hoping no offense—who is this ere • ■'Awkiriathat'fl a standin for the 'Ouse, : My mate, him as kep a shanty at the fust of the'rush near Dry Bread Gully, where you might a howl him, [my : mate do Bay as he 'eared cocky Walker Bay —leastways ho aint sure if it wcro -Cocky or the other squatter chap ■What's a runriin this'ere 'Awliins—say us'Awkins is an Eyetalian, ono o' ■\thetfe ; Eytaliane what' comes from ; DublinI,'' 1 ,'' dontcherknow.. But me, I •; Bays 'e aint no Hirishman 'eaint 'es a • Scotch lawyer what's been long •. enough in Lundun to pick up the ■•Cockney twang I says, and I • knows' 'irn right, as I 'card 'im ' jaw ij the other night, and I v Bays, says'l I'll write to the Daily I Bays, and arot 'im 'e knows were 'Aekins come from, An I says says I . I'll arst the Daily what a Dimicrit is too. 'Awkins doos say as 'es one an Cre orfc to 110 yer no what a. man rely safore we goto wotefor'im. So ipin .no offence Sir waio none aint' ihent bein as I am no soholard myself • on please will you anser these ere too questions for me an my- mate. - Yours trulo. .7.• Tommy Atkins.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2629, 22 June 1887, Page 3

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CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2629, 22 June 1887, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2629, 22 June 1887, Page 3

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