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The Spike or Victoria University College Review September 1925

[introduction]

We have been to the Tararuas only in thought, but we have been in person to High Misty. What novelties in the menu appear on such occasions ?

We pitched into the Hutt Forks down a most precipitous moss-covered bluff; we scaled the giddy heights of Mt. Fitzherbert; we splashed through the Orongorongo to ride in the dark through a leaky tunnel on a madcap trolly; we went after the most elusive Butterfly; we did these and many other things, for what? asks the infidel. And we reply—to enjoy the freedom, which is Nature's alone.

We eke out these scanty notes-but are not our real notes of the memory?—with a somewhat lugubrious ditty pinched from the pages of the New Zealand "Free Lance," usually so bright, so witty. The poet, as the kind friend who communicated the extract to us truly remarks, "is evidently unsound in doctrine."