That Retort Courteous'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 28 June 1906, Page 1

That Retort Courteous'

On glancing over the ' Current Topics ' after publication of o;ur last issue, we discovered a small but obtrusive literal error in the impromptu versified reproof which appeared under the heading, ' The Retort Courteous.' The lines should read as follows :—: — ' Then she read o' a Club en the far Taicr-ee, That meets whiles, o' nichts, for en 'oy mint, ye see, An' a Papist, ye Ken, men, a member may be, If he pays his subscription, .Uiist like a '" Wee Free." But ah ! when she read At the Club things were said That made the puir Papists feel raw, She scratched her auld head, And tae hersel' sad : 41 Dod, that beats a' ! " Many of our readers may have caught the meaning that was obscured throvg'i the substitution of the word • live ' for ' Hike ' in the fourth lin3. For the benefit of the others we reprint the adroit little impromptu,- referring them to our last issue for the circumstances which made it so appropriate.