The Footbridge.
[TO THE EDITOB.]
Brn,—l hardly know why I attempt any further reply to Mr Sandlant, except, like the dear women, one wishes to have the last say, Mr Sandlnnt reminds me of a bird the name of wfeich I forget. It tempts one to chase it, and hops laecrily along in a way that suslains ths chaser in hope of capture o’ a pretty prize until it gets him miles away from his course, when the bewitching twitterer nimbly disappears into the thicket. When I read Mr Sandlanl's last letter it struck me that he, too, had got into the thicket, or else I had, or the bridge had, until Igotdubbed a jolly fellow, when my intellectual activity was aroused, However, joking aside, there is nothing like keeping a thing in the foreground ; I believe we have managed to do that, even if we have taken anl tried to give kuosjii’t Therefore vafe.—l am, etc,, SWtovWi
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 573, 21 February 1891, Page 2
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158The Footbridge. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 573, 21 February 1891, Page 2
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