BY THE EDITORS.
To Correspondents.—Please do not write on both sides of your letter sheets when you contribute to The Friend.
It's all right to take a kopje on both sides, but you should not send it in on both sides.
Some of the Editors are sufficiently profane already.
CONCERNING ACROSTICS.
BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR H. E. COLVILE.
Sir,—"We don't hexpect hart and we don't hexpect hacting, but yer might jine yer flats."
It is perhaps too much to expect that the gentleman who sets up the type of The Friend should know the usual structure of a double-acrostic, or that he should trouble himself with such details as my punctuation and spelling; but he might have let my lines continue to scan and retain some germ of meaning; and, even if he did not realise that the proem was intended for verse, he might have let it stand as English prose. His statement that "according to the writer" the answer gives "the most appropriate cognomen," &c., is interesting, as anything must be that falls from his stick. It further reveals a wealth of imagination of which his previous efforts gave us no hint.
H. C.
Writer of the Double Acrostic
in Saturday's issue.