THINKS I TO MYSELF, THINKS I, BUNKUM.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 568, 11 January 1876, Page 2

THINKS I TO MYSELF, THINKS I, BUNKUM.

Srß, — Isn't lie droll Mr Edi'or, that poor old upenetic "Bu kum" in jour l««fc utuo. I can't tell you how I feel (or this iiiaitd of mob. great men n§ IngolJsby, Shaketpo ir^ Jnoluoa and Frank Westo i. Wnat a tbiuuo I' u tli.it that Kiiserablo Cox ''unknown to fiino" and gMsuly incompetent to " net nuy rivor on fire" should be po> mitted to rufflj hi* temper. I wish Bunkum* better half would not make Bunkum riled by culling that odious but fin© looking old party Cox, a '• <ioar old genilcin m " *vi referring m toruiiof eulogy to hit abilii y- As you knovr Mr Editor it set him "thinking to Inaudlf thinks he," and then ho breaks out m infernally (•ad jokea, and oh! tuch dreadfully iarca*tio remark). But thank hraVom it can only happan once a week, for by hi* own account, he only lays "a Lhyuking, a thynking, a fiynking," og Suiulnv afternoon, and quite often enough, if he can't ' thynk" beitirot others. Seriously though Bunkum, old tellow, 1 hops you dou't belong to that class of man wuo because comparatively unsucc>-P»ful them^clrodin the race of hie hate anything like auccesi in others. That's awfully mean Bunkum, and if you Uave such a feeling you ought to git rid of it ut once, because its mean, and I know Mn Bunkum would not like to hear you called that.. And dear old Bunkum one word more, don't jump to a conclusion that a per^ou is " unknown 'to political fame" because "you have never heard ot him before." There hire beon great men Bunkum you never heard of. An 1 I »uy, whatever jou do keep a " copy of Shakespeare by >ou" and don't mike a fool of bim in your uext letter.— I am, &c, Most ANn-BoMKUUSdX.