A SPECTRAL SMALL BOY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1465, 22 November 1881, Page 3

A SPECTRAL SMALL BOY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — That the small boy is a burden far more oppressive to the quietly disposed people of Te Awamutu than anybody else possibly could be, is a proposition that few will have the ill-breeding to dispute. Still, Nature has heretofore placed limits to the small boy's destructive career. He either makes away with himself by playing with firearms, or dies in consequence of an abnormal fondness for puppies. This creature has shed his I hoodlumism with his jacket and knickerbockers, and becomes a smaller evil, a noisy or even humorous young man in gloves. Such has been the uniform course of nature so far as the small boy is concerned, but it is with pain that I am compelled to admit that nature has now capriciously departed from her immeinolial custom. Formerly it was safe to consider that the drowned ov otherwise eliminated small boy had ceased from troubling humanity, and had for ever rested from his undesirable labors. Alas ! the inhabitants of the quiet vilkge of Te Awamutu know only too well that death is no longer a barrier to the small boy's power to^ plague, or to his ability to avenge his fancied -wrongs. But sometimes we find a raw, half-fledged thing attempt to mount and soar, whose trivial art was never tiied only as an assistant in a country store. — I am, etc., Tuekish Bonds. Waipa, 19th November, 1881.

Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co will hold a cattle sale at Cambridge on Tuesday next. Messrs W. J. Hunter's Ohaupo Cattle Sale will be held at the Ohaupo Yards on JHiursday, December ist

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