Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 11, Issue 1–2 (January–February 1897)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 27 February 1897, Wellington

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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An anecdote of Young Australia narrated by a contemporary is characteristic. The priest was examining a class, and asked a youngster in knickerbockers for a definition of « absolution. » To his dismay, the answer came without hesitation: « Absolution — brown filly, three - year - old, by Australian Peer out of Penitent, imported. Penitent, the dam of Penance, the colt as once stretched old Carbine's neck, but bust hisself up a doin' of it. »