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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 9. May 21 1968

Heresy

Heresy

Sir,—I feel moved to beg the courtesy of your columns for the purpose of drawing your readers' attention to the perpetration of an abdominable deceit.

On a recent Wednesday I hopefully attended a meeting of the Pooh Society, with the avowed intent of partaking of a modicum of honey, while at the same time being soothed by mellifluous voices reading extracts from the works of Pooh's confidante and biographer, Mr. A. A. Milne.

To my amazement, Sir, I was assailed with some vulgar lines from The Hunting of the Snark, These lines, written by one Lewis Carroll, a clergyman and mathematician of some note, while having a certain soi distant but decadent charm, are certainly not the work of a Pooh-fancier.

Although the ascetic beauty of Mr. John Hales' features cannot be denied, it was a shock to hear such perversions of the true, or Pooh, faith. As I sat, Sir, munching my farinaceous comestible, thinly coated with honey, I meditated upon this departure from the paths of doctrinal rectitude. It was like hearing the apocrypha read in a Methodist church.

Let us rise up as one to protest this violation of the accepted moral code. Hales is no Prof. Gerring, free to assail our cherished beliefs without harm. Therefore, may I suggest that we rend tins schismatic fiend in twain, and use the halves to while away an idle hour at Pooh-sticks? And as, Sir, we watch the halves of Hales float away down the harbour, let us remember the British Empire was made strong by honey and Pooh.

I remain, etc., Your obt. and humble servt., James (true-blue-Pooh) Mitchell.