MR CASILETION'S POEM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2987, 5 September 1891, Page 2

MR CASILETION'S POEM.

'I , '" Till-: KHiTUK. iTv, —f' In" "I va iiiui! potaJo.-s from fhd one paddock " " Li by nil " means that ;hu huj ;,,U.;;-s which ;ij)|K;;iiu(l in your issue r>! Tuesday last signed '■ J/iMiair " iikl '■ X'-Mopli&u " were written liy one mil the s;iui' j person. 1 r-'iipiuitic.illy leny that I .sit : yr/i'st.rl ih« nmtimciits or .vrotu the letter signed "Xenophon." 1 im exceedingly obliged to " Liberal " for iii fn'hi'jiring tone towards me, but all lie -i-.nv. I maintain that the pronominal .ij t >ctivi> ''snub " il -i s Jiot necessarily >pply to the iioiii) uti'tmtiateU) preceding it. Take tliu sixth line of the .second I'WMi: ■' Un'il it was abused." The pronoun " i^" refers to the same noun that the pronominal adjective "such" does. Shade t-fLindley Murray ! How, in the name of grammar or common sense oiii " it, " refer to the word '" king ?" If ■• Liberal '' (unless 1-c i.s wilfully and i.-ti'iiiionally blind) will read the wliolc of the second verse of the poem, care* fully notiiij; the context of the lines criticised, the verse will not be "enigmatical," nuither will the "meaning" lie obscure. "Liberal" says that lam " correct in my surmise that it is some time since he left eolliyc." I surmised nothing of the kind. I never imagined that he had been at rollcpe ; I said tchcol. In all probability tiie academical grore that "Liberal" " atteuded" was some ordinary boys' school —a sort of Dothcboys Hall, where domestic medicine was charged for at so much per quarter. Doubtless) as time went on the school grew into an " Educational Institute"; shortly after it blossomed into a "Grammar School," and finally it became a "Collegiate Institution," with an M.A. as Principal, and a hrge staff of resident aud visiting masters, where the lioys wore gowns aucl college caps and aped their superiors. My time is so valuable aud taken up with attending to my own affairs that 1 shall not have any further controversy with "Liberal." The whole toue of his letters are so tinned with spleeu and vindictiveness against Mr Castluton, not so much for the wording of his poem as for daring to be the mouth-piece of the wealth-producing classes, that they arc beneath any further notice from—Yours truly, Loth air.