A Special Coeresponden* ia,in some : respects, a unique variety of the genus - homo, actuated by a class of motives -different altogether from those which? afdtu'ate mankind in general. Take M. Ab6iit, for -■• instance ; he is the chief :rexg<>iienfc T of, ; ,. French fury and vehement guitaositjt; towards everything Prussian. : ' *He--s§ldbm uses any milder expression, when mention- - v : • ing a Prussian, than- liar, ruffidn, r or bully. • He exhorts his countrymen^ to flesifdy every man of them they meet, witu the first weapon that comes to hand, •from a :- paving-atone to a revolver. • Aa-he'iaia .■ the middle of a paragraph to this^effeot,::. \~-, & Prussian sentry appears btilow his . M. About drops his pen and rashes down- ; : . ; stairs ; he approaches the sentryl ri-iJThe' 1 ? :?... ; sentry had better "be on his guard^ip|iin^;?^ the least. M. About apprdacb;^ -/f; with the most affable of smiles ;{h;?js^ji :^;j sently we Bee him go into tbe\hOß|er^kip,i?^ and bring out cakes and wfn(fe^r|j||e ! |||^st freshtnenf of bis enemyi -|^^||f^^^ genial influehees the i -latter;"- genfi||^^j!^^^ foWsthe "advenkres bf iß^pj^fe^^^^^ and is made, in fact, " not into* i^^^|f^^pfj;s i - but Into Qopy.' 1 ". : '. • '' ; vs^rf^S^il ■•-■■ ' ' ■■••-,. '^'^,f^^;f'M^SS^ 1 •- - ■■'-.^■.^■r--r.i»m:}&&-3s
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2017, 27 December 1870, Page 3
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186Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2017, 27 December 1870, Page 3
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