The ' Snipeshooter.'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 16, 17 April 1902, Page 19

The ' Snipeshooter.'

In our church at White Island last Sunday, I discovered a new species of the genus ' pnipenhooter.'.. I hope he dies in our neigh, borhood, so that I can attend his post mortem, and see if there really is anything where his brains ought to be. The ' fnipeshooter' is the empty-headed imbecile that kneels on one kn^e about the church door during Ma=s. 110 kneeld on one knee be cause he hasn't enough brains to raite himself off two knees, aud h e doesn't want to become a fixture in the building. The new specie s I observed, went into a seat. Thid may be its custom, or it may have wandered in during a fit of abstraction. Moreover, it didn't kneel on any knee. It didn't even kneel on its ankle. It assumed a comfortable half-sitting, half-kneeling posture and spent the whole time of Mass caressing its alleged moustache with itsoigarettestained finger-tips. And you should have seeu the ' mo.' It wasn't worth mentioning. There wouldn't be enough in three like it? to make a hair shirt for a superannuated gnat. Yet only for what there was of it, the ' snipeshooter,' I am sure, would have fallen dead of ennui, and perhaps would have fallen on my hat He didn't even seem to care what horse won the boat-race. He re. gained consciousness before the sermon and went out. If you gee any of this kind of animal in your travels, tell someone to keep his eye on it till you get a stick. Behind the ear is the best place to hit it. Any museum will give you threepence for the body. It is really not worth threepence, though the animal is worth more dead than alive, but threepence is the prici?, I believe.