G.A.S.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2163, 5 December 1885, Page 2

G.A.S.

The ' Queenslander' deals far from gently with Sala, as will be seen by tho following:— ,( lt is nut generally known that George Augustus Sala gets £2O a column for his sketches. It is no wonder, then, that he hates driving with ' leading citizens' to climb country ranges, and prefers, as lie puts it, to moon about the little town and hear what they have tosay in the barbers' and chemists' shops. After all, we believe this is the trn,o way to collect the history of a nation. It's about a hundred to one', now, that Gibbon, got all his notes for the' Doclino and Fall of the British'Empire'from a Florentino barbor, and owes to the apothecary of tho district the wonderful amount of polish observable in the- scene where Yitellius knocks Ctosar A'ugustUß out in three rounds at t-heColiaemn, after having 'been rejected for the triumvirate' in favor of Vespasius Orestes, It won't be so easy to 'corner'Gus, when 'The Land of the GoUm Fleece' (a.capital title !) appears in book form, In answer to, perhaps, mild remonstrances, George will, of course, cry —"What! wrong about tho kangaroo being found sleeping with his tail in a lover's knot at Coonambie I—pooh ! Hero's the barber's own MS. of the story; and as for the yarn of theSlogolony bunyip that perched on the school-houso every night that Cobb's groom played the con*, certina, I produco the chemist's' bijl forremedies supplied, on the occassion of tho public thumping the musician received, after the seventh appearance of the _, bunyip, and tho corresponding disappear- '* ance of the last score of the Town Clerk's fowls." It strikes me that G.A.S. is gradually being found out.