A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 13 June 1868, Page 1 (Supplement)

A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

We (" Aunt Judy's Magazine ") have said a good deal about not admitting very juvenile compositions into our pages, but there is an exception to every rule. Three bond fide essays by a negro boy only ten years old ! They come into our hands from a clerical friend, who is taking temporary duty in one of the West Indian Islands — Barbadoes — and of whose school George Agustus W. Bispum is a scholar. The spread of the school-books of the S.P.C.K. into the colonies, and of newspapers among schoolmasters, sufficiently accounts for Master Bispum's marvellous acquaintance with the last literary gossip of London (the publication of the Queen's book), as well as for other English information of various sorts. We suggest to the elders, that when the children have laughed sufficiently at the blunders of the little Nigger, they shall be requested to re-write the essays correctly. — Ed. 'The Life of Prince Albert. — Prince Albert was born in Germinney in Europe and was the Concert of Queen Victoria and a Cage E. He was Cellebrated as a Father and errected a Mossoleeum at Kenzington London for the grate Mr. Coal, ware you may Learn art and sighence and Buy ginger Beer and bath , Buns which is is a grate Blessing to the subjex of Her grashious Madjisty. He left a newmerous proginney which are Praid for in the Stablished Church and are all Princes and princesses. Monnuments are errected everyware to ] this Innimitabel prince, and his ' Biogriffey was written by the Royal Queen of England.' ' The Hippopotamus. — 1 of the most Treemenjuice of Animells is , the Hippopotamus. He is also called the River Horse because He , resembils an emence Pig, being amfibbyus and wares no Hair. He has no Tayle and is cellebrated for His Emence Toshes. It is very difficult to catch Him as you never ■ know ware to find him. When you go to the Zooloajikkals you never see Him because }je always ' keeps Under water which nia&esi the Ignorant say he is a FabeL In. his Native wilds and orriginal state he is verry Terriffeck. He Treads upon his Ennemeys with his Feet and is the Behee Motji Qf Scrip-, sher.' 'Discripshon of the Lyon — The Lyon is the King of Beests. His Concert is the lyoness, but she is not so nobel as the Lyon. If you want to see Nobillity in a beest you must go tq the Lyon, but Yqu must not go alone, or you will Get et. The Lyon has 2 Roes of emence Teeth, and it is Treemenjuice to hear Him Rore. He has a long Tayle, and his Propensateys are verry kannibelL The Lyon is menshuned in Scripsher and the lyon. of Judy was much isteemed. He fs now distinked xcept in Babylone and Afrikker and tha Zoolojikkals &nd in Woomwell's show of wild Beests where he is, domesticatted and Lets a lady Ride him which ig §, grate Blessing of providence and ghows the supremmicey qf the hu* ►man Rayce. 1 Georgi Agtjstus % Biskpum, Aged 10 years.