To be over kind is but to bo cruel,, and hundreds, nay thousands, of our colonists to-day are ruining their children, and their children’s future, because they are too sparing with that grand old juvenile convinces the Strap I

“ Here’s t’ye,” was, so I grieve to hear, an expression heard in not a few “ drinking dens”—the term is Isitbian—on the morn of a recent Burns Centenary celebra tion. Some of those worthy Scots said “Hae’s tae yae,” and mere outsiders, miserable Southrons, asked for an ex planation !

But “ here’s tae yae” is simplicity itself as compared with a certain phrase which the Prince of Wales recently used at a banquet at Aberyswith. “Tammy” was pleased to give a certain amount of local colour to his speeches, and ended up one of them with the following;—“ His Oes a JDedivyddtvch i Chwi Oil ,” which, so lam told, being translated, means “ Here’s to you.” All I can say is, that a Briton would got fright fully thirsty before a “ Tally” had finished asking him <c What’s yours ?”

“ Forward.” —You are pleased to say that the “ Fat Contributor ” is over partial to cricket. That may he so, but when you remark that u football is our national game,” I beg most respectfully to differ with you. Football is not our national game. Our national game, so far as I may judge by Wellington precedents, is looking on at football.
