THE COUNTRY EDITOR AGAIN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 2590, 11 February 1891, Page 4

THE COUNTRY EDITOR AGAIN.

The following amusing tale is from the pen of "Teieraaehus," in the Argus:— "Country editors, as is generally known, have to be advisers-general to all their^snbscribers. Any qneston is regarded as fair, and if a satisfactory reply is not received the sudscriber is apt to reflect: Well I don't, know what I keep paying np to you f orj can't tell me a simple thing like that I'll have no more ©f you. Careful also must the editor be that he does not make mistakes or mix matters. I lost two thus in one day, says a poor fellow in much tribulation, and through this cursed locust plague, too — locusts and some other plague that is. Do you see? "A" wrote:-4-"We have got twins, we have, and we wa§it to konw how to gel; them over their* tefefliing. Theething twins are serious troubles when mixed up with harvest work and grasshoppers, and I took trouble to consult competent authority and get him out a sound answer. 'A' was the) maww^thlth^ twins. *B wrote about the grasshbppersj and I gave him also sound advice; bit then I put the answers to the wrong letters, a^^ when they got the paper *A*(twinß) readf 'Cover them careftillv with straw and set fire to them.and the little pests, after jumping about in the flames a few minutes will I speedily be settled ; while 'B* ) found, himself advised as follows: — 'Give a little castor oil and rub their gums gently with a bone ring. He has lost two subscribers through that little mishap in Victoria; what would or wtmld not have happened to him in Colorado?"