Got ’em Bad.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 172, 21 July 1888, Page 2

Got ’em Bad.

Ito the kditob.J Sib,—“ O wad some power th* giftie gi« ui, &<s." One poor fellow, who calls himself Exwise head, has rushed into poetry to prove that the inhabitants of Tologa are all scandalmongers little thinking he is himsslf guilty of the vice he would reprobate I And tnoh poetry too 1 Fancy attempting to rhyme “ telling ” with " prattling,” to lay nothing of the looseness of the metre in some places I And yet this might easily be overlooked, but how can the Tologiane pass over the insult cast upon their city by calling it a ” village ?” Tologa, the beloved of Captain Cook; Tologa, with ite hotels, its stores, its rinks, its Court, its Post Office, its telephone; Tologa, a port of call of the Union Company’s fine fleet of steamers, Captain Skinner’s fast clippers, aud about a thousand other craft of various sizss; Tologa, the—but why name all its excellencies and advantages ? Are they not enshrined in the bosom of Major-General Whitmore’s prototype ? And this is tbe place the would-be post tries to be—little and insult I No wonder he craves for liberty or for his fellows to be painted red and blue. The Tologrkns should libsrate him in a duck pond or ohange hie color to black with tar and add to the picturesqueness by rolling him in a bag of feathers. It might at leaet have the effect of curing the poetic mania.—l am, <to., His Head Wit X.