CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2820, 11 February 1888, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THREE STAR CALENDER,

(To the Editor).

Siu.—Having observed that most of thenewspapers of New Zealand havtuinstituted large and elaborate ders of horticultural operations, with" a view, apparently, of making a display of names and confusing their'" readers, andhavingcontemplatedfoUowingtheii pernicious example I have applied to . a few of my friends for shall- give faithful reproductions Wf their several contributions.—No. 1. By an Old Dolphin:—Doings of the week after nextWe tossed our pan-, cakes on Shrove Tuesday, buttered our parsnips on Ash Wednesday, , hatched our Easter eggs on Easter day; and entirely . lost our wits on , Whit Sunday. We intend the week , after next to Mangel our-Wurzel, root out our groundsel, pump on our pumpkins, cabbage our cabbages, comb out our carrots, and above all make a dead . stand for increase of celery. You have heard of men who speak poetry while' supposing tbey ; are guilty only of prose. I'm one of them. It might have been said of me as it was of Pope (by the way I forget which of the many Popes)" he whimpered in numbers through precocious love ofarith-. rnetic." However it is my business to be practical; my advice to all js, . therefore, be practical—never speak to any but a practical man. You may easily know the practical man, though he may not know you—indeed®' the matter of that, it'is a happy tlMg if he knows anything..

I am &c., A NAUGHTY COLTUKALIST,