HOW THEY READ THE "WAIKAT TIMES" AT PUKERIMU (COMMUNICATED.)

Waikato Times, Volume 491, Issue VIII, 13 July 1875, Page 2

HOW THEY READ THE "WAIKAT TIMES" AT PUKERIMU (COMMUNICATED.)

. Nfcver heard o\the place before, 'didn't you, Jerusalem I Tlnsi3«*tj£pllWLlnlt grea4.bisfc>rical writer, \rteinu3 Waul, said yikJ>lL^Sl ttftttokie* TKwith a spade to make 11 smile wlfc^a^eaj^ TSfe*cis\lso,the bn-tb place of that great &lao\ traveller wBo sat on "London bridge and surveyed the ruins of to at great metropolis. His name was Walker. The creek below is nainnd after him. You will be p'eased to hear of the increased interest in local literature—not that we all subscribe- but tbere is a man down the road that does, and four or five of us stick him up every Saturday aud maka him read to us your paper. As it, was raining last S^turdaV he idn't want to stop, said wifd was sick chtStoigj&t theVedX^jp firewood chopped, cows to milk, tfbl»t/h»d noiraobTbe\*per, The mean fellow did not wahHo^tjjs ha\Hs it\uub Bob -F. twigged one corner sticking out of a hole in \is haversack, Sj he just slip -ed his knife along aud out dropped the paper, a pound of caudles, and Iwo tigs of Tuck and Stewarts tobacco* ;-=o we told him he had better go homo, as it was late, nurse bis wife and chiMren, get some dry clothes and have acomfortaLAe^ma^e; wilst wtK^djoufned. under -the bridge, LghtS^orl^of^thp abidl^3^t>r<Jacb.ed the tobacco, and made ouiselv*^ cflbFortablewiHsf^ the circumstances. Discussing your T^aturliay's is»e, whititfin th-j midst of youc re port of the- grwat swiui\ h)\r many ballocks it wouM tdcteu it the clovor w.m us hi as Uie rus^e?, Bob W. burut ahok in. h\s o lakin j icket whilst shaii q the candle, an i Jim S. say*, -< >it— no in >re about; ti> ifc svv imp, »»sesi trtW*iß«%eJi^toJk§ shaiekolder Buiubhee<<\ ia it. 11 Heaolved «2mJ&"G|y, 3^»|Lpm<(i Ivave as I see that tnaa tomtugV'iit mlki-s w^Wßper, a >*l tr^iug to get past, but he does n^r until I get\s<juzu!} at, th it blessed — '* JBuster "