"HARAPEPE" ON THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3038, 5 January 1892, Page 2

" HARAPEPE" ON THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Bin, —That " Harapepe " through the inodium of your columns has recently had a good deal to say on the subject of evolution, but too pithily shows that he lacks discretion. I Ijulievt) his neighbours can well remember that many years ago ho purchased soma fowls, and very properly, set to work to build a hen-house, but all the force of character he is possessed ot, did not sufhce ti c.irry him through with the work, and his hen-house gut never a roof. While the fowls he in\est«i in were domest'.&Ued animals, by evolution and modification, with Ciiro in breeding, they were probably a century at leant in advance of the wild fowls of the forest, and thoro is no doubt had a capacity for further developoment. But instead, through the woakness of the man into whose hands they fell, there was nothing for the birds but to go back to a state of luture and roost in the trees. Your readers may he surprised tn learn that this man uf evolution has so little energy—so liitle enthusiasm on this subject of which he would preach, that he couldn't finish his hen-house and give his own fowls a chance—l am, etc., E. 1\ •Jaiiuru-y, "ail, 1&)5.