Canny Sawny

Southland Times, Issue 10142, 19 April 1889, Page 3

Canny Sawny

TO THE EDITOR, Maisteb Editok, — I'm no by ony means gien tae writin' tae» the newspapers, but, man, I cahna help noticin' yon letter o' Baxter Pike's* in the Times o' last Friday. Did ye ever hear the likes o't? There's ac tiling perfeckly evident — he maun be sufferin' frae 'indigestion. I wad advise him tae tak' a quid sup o' het parritch or something saftfor his?f upper. I'm thinkin' Maister Editor, gin his views are a sample o' what we wad hae wi' an English magistrate, that a' the English-speaking nations may be thankfu' they hae gotten "Caledonia's stern mid wild " tae fa' back upon tae administer justice for them. Man, jist picture tee yersel' nob, gin we had— say Baxter Pike for magistrate, siccan an inducement tae crime it wad be~tae hear him pronounce sic a sentence as this :— "For sich an' sich a crime I commit ye tae walk intil the prison by the ac door an' oot by the ither." Man, it wad never dae ava\ Yon aboot the eleventh commandment — sakesaUvel Ilamhed and ' lauched, an' I dae believe had I no. Btoppit I'd be lauchiu' yet. There's only ac soond bit in -a' his letter — whar he says he hopes the magistrate in Dunedin's no an Englishman. But I dinna like tae trouble ye ©wer muckle, sac I'll jist sign mysel'— yours maist respeckf ully, . "Sawjjy." Ryal Bush, 16th April.