ST. MATTHEW'S OLIVE BRANCHES AND "PELEG SLICK."

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 2962, 22 January 1867, Page 4

ST. MATTHEW'S OLIVE BRANCHES AND "PELEG SLICK."

To the Editor of the Daily Soothkks Cross. g IR> —Between wit and folly there has always been considered by rational beings to be a vast difference j but when your correspondent " Peleg Slick" assumes the cap and bells, and attempts to appear funny in print, the disguise fails Mm, and the bray comes forth. It is an old saying, and a very good one too, that in takes a wise man to be a fool, and your correspondent should have pondered this in his mind before writing his letter. The thistle nuisance is again attracting considerable attention in this proviace, and does it not strike your unpolished correspondent that his talent might be more usefully employed in browsing upon them, and thus ridding us of two nuisances at once, than in going ta a place of wowhip to " swear and stuff his alarmingly conspicuous ears with cotton" as he tells us ? Goldsmith says that " fools who oame to mock remained to pray." Let us oharitably ifope that he may read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest these few remarks to his own benefit ; and nwy he never have the vanity to appear again in print, is the fervent wish of your old friend. - Chiti Vinkgab.