Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1191, 14 February 1880, Page 3

Correspondence.

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TO THE EDITOE. Sir, — Will you kindly alllow me space in your paper in reply to an article in Tuesday's issue, re bare shooting, as I have no doubt it refers to me as one of the parties — party the second — I am intimately acquainted with, and know that be is a master hand at giving pussey a summersault if there be only the scut to be seen. lam glad poor puss has found a champion, but I do think now that he has awoke to the desperate state of affairs hare, ey, he might have made it three parties without drawing 1 the long bow to a greater extent, and given the little gun by the lake a share of the oastigation. The only difference .is, the little gun by the lake wastes too xnuoh ammunition for no return, and jugged hare iB conspicuous by its absence. Moral.— The fox and the grapes. Now, Mr Editor, I am a liberal sort of party, and getting at times more hares than I know what to do with, I will be only too glad to snpply pussey' s champion with one, free gratis, as I know that would suit him nicely. Therefore, if he will let me have the particulars of the sort he likes, say old jack or old Jill, grown leveret, or half crown ; of the above specimens he can have his choice the first day I knock over six or seven, my usual number when on the warpath. I cant conveniently hump more, as I am delicate. Should I not be successful, No. 2 party is never known to tail, and be is of a generous disposition also. lam a bit of a somnambulist myself, and recollect dreaming that sad havoc took place among the pussies towards the end of last year (I am not particular to a month), when they were heavy in young, or else in the milky way, and that it was the Aristocracy of Waikato that held the jubilee. I al*-o dreamt that pussey' h champion was asleep, and only now recovered his long lost powers. "Equal and exact jusfce to all men" is a motto to be admired. — I am, Sir, H. Kelly, Champion hare shot of the Waikato. Hamilton, Feb. 12th, 1880.