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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1163, 6 August 1867, Page 6

; GrEBAT SAOEEFIOE '7 ■ >' %-r, op .• /-• BRAPEBiY AND CLOTHING •• fob" '•' \ ' * FOTTRTEEX DATS ONLY, . AT * THE OLD PREMISES ; op ; ' HAY & HONEYMAF, Opposite, tiie Old Cotot-house.. rjIHE EEMjMNDEE' OE THE STOCK, . AFTER THE SALE, •vnxti be. ' DISPOSED OF BY AUCTION OR. TEKDEK THE LEASE OE THE EKEIVEISES TO BE DISPOSED OS ' . - . : ' TOB. THE' ; i-tri ■ -R.TCTWATism-RR OF THE. TEBMV. :: HATS' & HONEYMAN. . [ADVEBTISESIBNT/J----DAVIDSON" V. BRICKLAYER & 00. FEELING- that the'withdrawal of iny family from my-home is asaumihg ; a reality,':'that the littla 1 fleet.has clearedout in a rather, ungrateful manner,. considering the. shelter ihe havon. lias afforded them these .25 years, aiid.inf case ' that neighbours ■ Bhould think that I'd found a jewel and spoiled it'in the set: ting, I feel, justffied'in publishing afe witemsconcemirig'them and a ceriain, bricklayer well known in Onehunga, who my boy works'with, and who . has troubled himself abont my .family IV little more than necessary. Now, Mr.' Bricklayer, as. yon pride 1 . yourself inriotbeingbested by any body, jam inclined to think yoa are xot the mm to spend your, money unnecessarily,,with out you haveaonie end. in view. If you havo.no end in view y oil.are a fool to help, to! make, a gap'that willnevei; be filled up again. When 1 my-mfe left wo disagreed about'£3 Worth" of onions that I wanted to sell to pay my debts, [upon which lam saluted,by you as a b „ y tyrant; you said you'd.have.gohe:hefore"only you had to stop to take' care of my 'wife. 7 ' Have nit yiu sbuhieil, 1 my neighbours to see if there would be a chance ofeommitting me for what happened some time'previous ? .. .On one occasion, when my wife and me had had words;. I heard you tell her through the partition that' separates your two rooms, that I'had'nt a b—y'spark of a man in me, ana, to her lasting disgrace, she : .never said a word in behalf of the inan who done for her twenty-five years ago what you—and I think no other man—would have- done for her. You wouldn't have about her behaving lite a mother to you then, and you'd never see her want, 3 as you are repeatedly doing- now-, that rather insinuates that I would see her ; want. You'd have - had your .notice to quit then, ordy knowing what an asa I: should be considered by my family, why I choked it down. It is a great pity that you have not 1 got a wife of your own' before now, as I've often told you A arid riot try to break up other people's homes ; - and you must be getting 'pretty tough, as you Bay you worked on the early construction of the Birmingham railroad. . . The last words I heard you , say to my wife was, "If I waß you I'd leave;" and ■»' directly you left slie' left; and if any person can believe that a woman would leave a good home and ~~ a husband who has made'"every comfort and'convenience for her, without having a pretty good understanding with you why I can't. Moreover, I have f tried to get my boy many time 3to take her money i from me, and was willing if.'she could get along in | Auckland for her to stop; but I never seemed worthy :of an answer. • Why wasn't I worth an answer P Because she knew that I didn't. intend to live with you any more, and she must do without one or the other. Haven't you been passing yourself off as my wife's- brother? Ain't the children taught to own no father P Does'nt my wife say herself Bhe couldn't get along without you ? Doesn't the good lady in Burt's big house, where you lodge, put it about Onehunga that you and my wife and 0 family are all gone up the country together. It would have shown a more becoming spirit in you to 1 have stood on one side when-you knew X was willing to make matters satisfactory if I could. get a chance, A great business ,for a lodger to be heading a man'a l> family against him, a family that haß had his earnings for upwards of_twenty-flve year 3, and some s hundreds besides! .Whoare you to take root in another man's place like an encroaching rata tree, and ultimately to extinguish the original owner of the soil, i) which I've no doubt you would if you could ? What did you take my bey away from his home for, the 1 minute his mother left, without asking my consent ? Admitting that it was the boy's wish, I which I don't think it. was, for I've seen him shed t tears before he told me he should go, you had a right to consult me about it"; you and all the crew have treated me like a cypher." I loved that boy as t dear as any man loved a child, and 111 returned it t till your iufluencs got into him, that is your lesson. Now, Jimmy, you seem to value meabontas 1 much as the dirt you shake off your feet, you have never come to see me once since you took your things away. I have always been a good parent to you, and I believe your sisters too mother ain't all she ought to be, no more than I am, and I think I may in truth say that my influence has been to lift her up in the world, quite as much as to drag her down; and 'tis possible I may have been some little value to you in my time. Your mother should have cultivated a more loving spirit to one that served her well, then j there would'nt have been any rows ; if she did so . thie last action could hardly have been such an easy job to her. When your mother takes you to the Police ' Court again to tell a big lie about your life being in. danger, don't tell people you'd as leave shoot me as you would a cat, or they won't believe you. I bought you that gun seven years ago, knowing it would be a pleasure to you when you grew up, but that would be rather an ungrateful purpose to put it to. That will do for you. Look here, wife, when you come to see iny enemies in Burt's big houss again, don't bing •that Simon Pure of an oven-builder, that friend of Mrs. Taprall's with you, for me to - have a hearing before.' I' can do without him. What has he done with his New as I heard he was lodging with you in Parnell? and how about bis wife and ■ family that he left in : -According to your account, that the bricklayer was: so indignant pbout, , is he another of the: good "Samaritans that you are going to behave; like a mother to ? and he .is never .going to see yon want. You have told me sometimes ; when we 'have had' words, that I ehould he sorry when it wxis top late,'ndw:l know what you meant and ni endeavour to abide by it. ' ' ' % -,V'- T ; F. DAVIDSON,,.' ' -Onehunga. "TTTF/ ">ra' 1 W TraAT.A-ND HRRATjP." 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