LATINIZED.
Jack returned home from college, where he had won high honours as a student of. ancient languages, but he pleaded ignorance one day when his young sister asked him to translate a sign she had seen of an optician's which read thus, "Con sultu sabo utyo urey es."
Jack struggled manfully with it for several minutes and gave it up.
"It isn't good Latin," he said. "There are some words in it that are Latin. The others aren't, anyhow. It doesn't make sense."
"That is what I said," replied the sister; "but cook translates it without any trouble. She says it means 'Consult 'is about your eyes.' "
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 7
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108LATINIZED. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 7
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