WANGANUI WHACKS.

NZ Truth, Issue 90, 9 March 1907, Page 4

WANGANUI WHACKS.

Although we have won the championships! for brass band, amateur and professional rowing, and Scotch dancing w« are not suffering from swelled head ; but blush with modesty as delicately as any maiden. We are, However, having a good old row between "Ginger" and /'rejected Macaroni." The many falls "Ginger" has given Macaroni has caused the diminutive, mustard-tem-pered Macaroni to have a dead set on the professor of the cane i A teacher got the run by the Education Board, but they calculated without "Ginger." He set to work, got the case decided by the Teachers' Appeal Board, m t-nu teacher's favor, and, of course. th« high and "■mighty rejected" got tin; spike. It was not long. • before •!■•" restless enthusiastic "Ginu.er" t- ou lit the cadets of this town (see nisi, paragraph what we are) should .•■>> down to the Exhibition, and sho-y all and sundry what we can.' turn ■out. m the budding soldier line. It. vws no sooner thought- of tlian acted .ui> : on, and "Ginger" tackled 'th«s Board for assistance. Of course the "rejected Macaroni" thought he had' a, good chance to snub "(. finder," but rs he didn't take snubs sittinc; down and his Scotch blood rising, be, a Tie" getting full up -of our inviso'ratins pea soup Okehu, took the .bull by Ul9 horns, and had. the ■■.consummate' impudence to deal direct with thc-Ml'n* ister, and wonj all a Ion? the line ; to the great elation of the 'youngsters* and the knocking into a cockedr fi^t of Macaroni. y ' : ■ After two such knock-outs a sensible, person would think he haxTbctter show discretion and keep-: cjuietv but it is not m the little "rejected Macaroni" to keepviquiex. He is as impudent and as cftwky as any cook sparrow, and as insignificant; that is the reason why he got rejected, and the late Richard the First bump*ed him. - To return to our mutton. To get on "Ginger" was the burning question, and as he had the connivance of spineless members of the Board, some of whom don't know ragwort when they see it, although their cow-punching localities are full of it, and others who form a ring to watch the interest and keep him m his .billet as an official of the Board, -everything looked rosy to give "Ginger" such a fall, that would settle his hash. So they, m. a roundabout red-tafie manner told their long-faced scratcher to send a letter along, through various channels, vja Mars, that was to reach "Ginger" some time next century, that lie was not to take fat, lean, curly or lank-hafred toddlers into his school to get used to the alphabet and stick. "Ginger" continued on his way, and did so, which was naughty for "Ginger" to do, and richly deserved ten strokes on the ' seat of his pants. .Never mind,', "rejected Macaroni" was not the boy to try it ; so, at a meeting of the Board it was all "iGinger," ndthing else but- "Ginger," and threats of, all kinds were hurled, at his head, but as , there is a lot of difference . between talking and doing things, it is very probable that Macaroni" and his spineless crew will find, when it comes .to the final washing up of the affair, 1 that the" Institute of Teachers will just about give them something to think about, and a very, strong reminder not- to do it again. ; l L It is always a pleasure, to "read of the advancement - Ot{o^r r '^pung people. A selected condi4a 4 ra :^for ' r the Wellington Training jojdilsge:hais;. the honor to 'bear the Sflin^name '••'asuthe-; eminent Scotchman who .', leattit ' an 'ell of a lot from a spider. \\ would be a very interesting and highly scientific occupation if a study was made of how to, find Wanagapeka gold* , When the gipsy camp was here the members did itinerant visits, and for the sign of silver told what was m store for oneself. At the leading meat purveyor's shop a curly-headed rosy^cheeked butcher boy, who prides himself on the taste of his personal appearance, both in* curls and collar, was visited by / a swarthy maiden.. Instahtlv all the poetic passions that swell his manly breast began to surge, but an open shop is ndt conducive to noble expressions, so tliij sanctity behind the carcasses of beef had to be resorted to. What an elysium to make pure love m ! Rapturous moments of warm waist squeezing behind the beef took place and time soon went, and .as- it is strictly on the time limit, the curly headed, rosy-cheeked darling thought he had struck oil t and a strictly private arrangement— capital , ten bob-r---of a limited Company nature was effected. Our noble nibs thought he had struck something beautifully lovely and warm. So he did, for When he had parted up the capital for the company, the dusky "maiden" took him kindly by the hand, placed it on the top of his head, and with a winning smile /worth all the capital told him he could now feel for himself something soft and warm— his own Byronic curls. Drovers for freezing companies have losses when driving that conic very heavy on them. a|3 tliey have to make good the deficiency. A drover when some -sheep happened to drop a sheep oh the farm of one who thinks himself a great toff * and a leading pubMc man; When going back to pick up the stray 0110 be found that his lost sheep had hung; his skin on the fence, and was getting dressed for dinner. This was a bit tough on. the drover, and he expressed himself so. but the great toff and leading public man was so dense m the head, or tight on the purse-strings, that no value has passed for the stray sheep. Many as pood, and it is not a stretch of imagination to say far better, men have had extended lodein.es m one of the Sovereign's hotels for a far less offence. This is the class of man to run down our late King Dick, and call him everything. "Good God, what impudence. ■>