"ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE".

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1131, 19 May 1911, Page 4

"ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE".

A LITERARY KFFORT SENT TO UH. M/AHTHUR. As an illustration of the proljtant which Now Zealand Magistrates are solastimes linked to solve, tho following Fpcciincn of "English ns !iho is wrote" wss recoiitly received by Dr. A. M/Arthur, S.M. It, is a fairly humorous aud rather astonishing litvrary effort:— to tJio Mudgfst Dear sir I wish to remember to you a little of the transection between — ami his wile towards the Rvsepecte that he as for his' poor old mother ill getting his stepfather to worlt tor him, and Hobing him bare face of his wages alter he as work lor it, and Earut it. he will pay no one, aud his wiie makes the Bullets for him to (ire them, this is a custom thing of his. he as had — that is his stepfather to my knowlcgo cutting carl'ulpolcs lor the —, also loding Boldera for Mr. , tho council, and aa never payed him one penny, and carting sand for the Treiitam Kacecauso, and has never paid him, but goes and catch old wild billies goats witch belong to the groundgrants and takes them to his mother, then, when it come arround that ho as to Pay his stepfather his wages, he make up a bill, charges Bβ much a head for wild Billies Goats somo of those animals he has brought killed and dress, Bar their hind legs, and sold them to his poor old mother as lambs. Mr. — he hasent nerer owned a sheep nor a lamb in his life wharo is ho getting tho lambs from that he can killed them, and sell them to his mother and mako out a bill for them, and also wild piga he catches in the bush and takes the Offcrceno of them down to his mother, and gives them to her that no man would feed his dog on, and mako up a bill for that, this is a point that he his trying to work on his poor old mother which is of 76 years of age—the tanv point ho has often tried to pet on his poor old father, who is dead, and in his crave. Dear sir, I feel sure that, when yon havo read my letter, that yon will see that my poor old mother will get justice a,nd paid her honest rights I remains your Truly Mr loving son of Misses ——'