Untitled

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 July 1872, Page 2

PLA.IN SPEAJKING. Old SuMMERFiBLD discovered the secret of setting water on flre, but a greater than Sumtnerfield has turned up. A San Francisco paper notices this new etarin the galaxy of liars thus :—We Hke.a Harr-a thoroughly conscientious, incluatrios, ingenious liar. No£* your ordinary prevaricator, who skirts along the coast of truth keeping, ever . within the sight of the headlands and promontories of probability, whose excursions are limited tp short^fair-weathet , reaches', into fcbfc ocean of, imagination, and who paddles'forport as if the devil were after him whenever a capf a\ of ; wind;threatens a storm of expOsarej Dat i bold. sea-going liar who spurns a ; 'Continent and strikes straight out for blue water, wish his eyes fixed upon the horizon of boundless mendacity. In the Paris correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" we recognise such a one, and our hat is now at half-mast in token of our profonnd esteem feriority. This person gravely, tells .that; at the burriing! of the Archepiscbpal.palace at Bourgesy among other • Jmanu•ecriptsv: destroyed -wae the original deathwarrant of Jesus Christ, signed?;at Jerusalem by one Gapel, and dated U.C. 783. Not only so, but he kindly favours us with a literal translation of it! One cannot hdtp warming Up to a man who <?anl . lier like that.; :Talk about Locke's "Moon hoax," an 4 Mpa4eaV " SumnjCTjfield "deception! Coraparfed WitH - tb« exalted mendacity of this fcrerttendoos fib they are as bus the silly "whisper of a hearth-,, sfone cricket to shrilt'tnimpeting of wounded elephant—the piping of a sick.c&ck;., sparrow to the tiraien clang of » in love! With some impaiaence the time when sW^ ; p^! i }^^ ee *° nunt up and ttnpfißft.we"..\w^.^. L eerved npon^am ;^: ; r V ; -