To "Sandy."

Otago Witness, Issue 1681, 9 February 1884, Page 22

To "Sandy."

I havfl read your letters in the Witness this last twa works, ay' richt ff'acl I wii to hear hoo you had sp°nt tho New Year's holidays. You maun ken hoo to humour your nuld wife when ye made her believe v«« wo-r» "Mnjr h-r a 1 her :n'n \vn\\ hm you an' her »ewn t,<e 'jive gey weol. tac I'm no mum iae nay ony mair alioot, ibati. You mnst hu'o a gey f>appy r.l ht in wmr Fiswml ooni'n's li n<si» tt-hmi ye sat up r.tt'thn )»»*' hews in tin- ir.onii-)' tallrin' aboot tho anld worthies at hame ; but I'm thinkin' yore a gey* funny worthy ynr-el' when ye bid me como tae New Ottum Flat tae drink tea alansr wi' you, an' tak' quid care at the same time no to tell me the road to it. 1! ye bid a' the rest o' yer freo.is in the simp way, your sriiPßta will no he verra B'ir on the bupar. I have been spierls' everybody I met on tho road this last twa or three weeks if they could tell me the road tae New. Chum Flat, an' nane o' them kent onythins: aboot it, but some wad say they kenfc wbaur Adam's Flat wiß, au' anither wad tell me aboot Miller's JFJat, &c , till my liei-1 f?o<; that full i' flats that sometimes when I'm' jraun behind tho plough I catch my sol' eroonin' awa':— % There'-i Whara Flat, there's Miller's Fiat, There's Auld Bob's Flat an' Younjr Bob's Flat, There's Adam's Flat and I ovell's Flat, And New Chum Flat nn' a' that : We've flats eneuch an' a' that, For your a flat an' I'm a flat, An' thousands miir an' a' that. And, Sandy, you woro Favln' you were hearing the Kennedy fimily. I'm pr'ad o' that, for they were a pei feet treat tne listen tae I dinna wonder at your bluld rnnnin' through ye sao quick when Mr Kennedy nanir "vScit« Wha Hae," for I wis up a t the Clutha latt week an' honrd them sinjr a lot o' songs aboot Prince ( h".rliH. till I thoct I could hae bean a Jacobite mysel', but if there had been ony fechtin' tae dao, I think I wad ha'e been a second Johnny Cope, for I'm a fine runner. Anyhow, it wia the happiest nicht that ever I spent in New Zealand. I'm Bure naebody enjoyed themselves mair than I did, an' when Mr Kennedy bade us a' farewoH, an'tauld usthathedidna' think that he wad ever come back to New Z o nland, I wis vcrra near losing hand o1o 1 my tongue, an' bawling oot amang a' the folk " Wjll ye no como back again ?" When they commenced to sintr "Auld LangrSyno" J did my verra best to male* mv voice sound abune a' the rest, thinkin 1 that Mr Kennedy or some o' his daughters wad hear me, an' gio tne a nod. but they took nae mair notice o1o 1 mo than if I had been jtst an or'nar' man Beforn closing this long 'etter I'll jist Biy that Dnnald Dinnie wi3 a <rroa + attraction tae the Caledonian games this year, for I cam' a' the way mysel' tao see him. Nbo d-iot he i 9 a fine flpecimen of humanity, but I think he mu«t l'ae been brought up aboot a mill, whanr there wis plenty o' meal tae mak' hacgis wi', but I ralther j«.lnu=e ye're a bit o' Hielanman ycrael'. I ken if onybody wi9 tae ask me what eountrvinan yo wpro I wad fay yo were between a Hielan' woman an' a Scotchman, an' Mr Kennedy says that's anc o' th» finest breeds in the world — Wi* beat wishes, I am, &c. t D4VIP Gißi). Novell's Fiat, January 28.