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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1910

Answers to Correspondents

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Answers to Correspondents

Answers to correspondents

G. M. Cl-gh-rn.—Yes: Communism is all right as long as every-body has nothing (except, perhaps, brains), but individualism is the only cult for the possessor of a Greek Dictionary.

T. N. H.lmd-n.—The landed gentry may indeed be the back-bone of England, but we don't agree with you as in New Zealand. What about yourself ?

Miss N--ls-n.—Your dictum that "If you have not a love story of your own, you may as well read someone else's," may be a wise saw, but is not a modern instance. The "N.Z. Times" would say, "If you have not a love story of your own. 'Get busy.'"

J-hn J-hns-n.—Your autobiographical Epic firmly declined.

We have no place for Epics. However, we cull the following sample for the benefit (?) of our readers: —

"Oh! I. a small child of much guile,
At Christmas with cherubic smile Said. "The puddin" is nice,"
And took a tenth slice—
I sought for the cash all the while."
"I, the man. of the child am the son:
Cruel pain has taught me a surfeit to shun
The moral— 'tis clear, That a novel's too dear,
When it pays but an ounce to the ton."

J-l- -S E-gb-n.—No! As you say. the French Revolution could not possibly have occurred in Russia.

Prof. Ad-ms-n.—No, we don't think so. "There little foot-steps lighty tread the ground" could not possibly refer to the Library floor.

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