THE £1000.

Marlborough Express, Volume V, Issue 250, 24 September 1870, Page 3

THE £IOOO.

To the Editor of the Marlhorouyh Express. Sib,I—l 1 —I am more accustomed to washing and digging than to writing, but 1 don’t like to be so unneighbourly as not to warn a lot of stupid people not to waste their money. It is riot from any ill-feeling on my part that I sometimes inconvenience my friends.- I used always to behave very well, until a big brother of mine would not stay in his own bed, but came walloping over into mine, where there was not room for him, and that made me do likewise to the annoyance of my neighbours. Bat mind, it is not my water which disturbs the Blenheimites, but the water which comes from my big brother, and I cannot hold it. Now I hear that some of my neighbours want to make me bold this water, and that they are going to spend of their substance to build me in, but I laugh at their silly - ness. People like these seem as if they never would learn wisdom. Did they not some years ago try this plan against my big brother, and did not he get up one morning, before these foolish people were out of bed, arid send the wreck of their £13,000 down to them for breakfast. And have not all the banks they have raised against our active waters, whether by

public or private effort, been washed away in like manner 'i And what guarantee have my neighbours that it will not be so again if they try to dam us in, after the manner I hear talk of ? None w hatever. It is in our nature to curl and boil and dig. Earthwork is our special delight, it comes apart so easily, and we can wash it to great distances. We cannot help this ; still I am neighbourly enough to say to the wise men of Blenheim not to waste their money in so futile a work as this bank would be. Rather let them devote their attention to the point where my big brother comes over into my bed, a;ul let them not try to put themselves up against him as if they could stop him by main force, but let them lead him gently, little by little, until he is induced to return to his own bed, then they and I, shall have peace.- I am, &c., Opaava.