To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—Those of your correspondents who, for various and no doubt very good reasons, choose ty withald their names when contributing to your correspondence columns, will, I am sure, pardon me for writing in their, as well as my own, behalf for the purpose of stating how forcibly We have been brought to realize that ideas are not a sufficient! substitute for knowledge, by the staggering statement of Mr. Pope with reference to the pseudonym. I take the liberty, also, of writing in your behalf (knowing you te be a very busy man, correcting our typographical blunders and licking. our puny efforts into shape so that the compositors can set them up in something. like readable form) feeling confident that you will appreciate the motives prompting me ta thank Mr. Pope for his astound: ing*advice as to how you should 1un the correspondence section of your paper. As you have yourself stated, "Any number of people could do it better,"
you made a blunder there, if I may be permitted to point it out, by omitting add that now etmologically accepted phrase,—coined, It believe, by the loquacious chauffeur: (sic.) of one, Tate, during thd course of a somewhat unfortunate motor-car trip to Portsmouth—"T don't think.
When Mr. Pope's ideas on anonymity become generally known, they will create such al cataclysm as will stagger humanity, and incidentally, Mr. Coates' integrity will be vindicate to sign myself, I am, etc., Groras.
P.S.—My full name is George Norval. As I have previously pointed out, my grandfather divided his time between feeding his flocks on the Grampian Billa and "fleecing" his clients in Lincoln's Inn. My grandmother—well there has Been enough trouble in our family over that matter—so I will ask Mr. Pope's permission to keep the skeleton. closet door locked.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.