CIRCUMLOCUTION,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1475, 12 November 1881, Page 2

CIRCUMLOCUTION,

[To t/ie Editor qf the HERALD.}

Hil, — I pray you do mo the justic« to think that I am in earnest when I aak Ciptain Port»»r whether, before setting down to compose his address he did not swallow a dictionary, together with a b->ok of learned questions. In th« third clumo of hisaddresss the gallant Captain says, M I disapprove of such a retrograde step from assured progress us a reversion to effete Provincialism." What a mouthful of gr»nd words is composed in this sentence ! It was Be >v Brummel who, at tlie Bath Wells, uddressing the. Duke of Norfolk said, " Your Grace, will you .•.■ndesconding'y permit me to insert the summits of my digits itito ynr pulverising utonsil, that I may gratify by grateful titillation, my olfactory nerves." His Grace said, "What the devil is it you want Brummel 1" " Your Grace, if it may so please yoj— a pinch of snuff." Then said th- Dtik«, "Why the devil didn't you .*ar a pinch of mmft." And so i s.iy to Captmii 1'..; ler if H is i return to Provincial institution* to which he objects, why the d 1 does he not siy »o in lanuuaite any ordinary man can understand. We have not all t>e>>u brought up with it classical education. — I am, &c. , Sublimity.