The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-02-27
Letter e. osn GrIincz.
III. NJ. W.

Mr.. EDITOR II have got the cacoethes scribendi-
it is a bad malady, that means disease hope you
won't have it. They don't have it up our way. 1
caught it since L came into town-caught it of a gov
eminent officer. He says there are a great many of
them in town-cacoethes 1 mean-for L don't know
but one government oficer-the tall fellow, you know.
Ii. L mean, botheration, liar; dear me, L amt
going to be personal you know who L mean.
But | started TO tell you how happy 1 am. The
KIHaicay is n going to run again. Bless her old
hulk-wea all thought up our way them ship-carpenters
were a going to get her. l mean to say those ship
carpenters,-tla are critic of yours will get n hold of
me if l don't write correct. Well, as 1 said, we were
coming TO town to live, me- and my old woman {; L
mean my family it's too lonesome up on them other
islands without no steamer, so 1 was a going to settle
down in town we can't travel well in those schoon-
ers. The government officer too-he told me the
births-no, its berths, isn't it?-were not long
enough on the schooners-he couldn't get all (. his
belongings 3" in 1 don't know how long those are !;
couldn't have his { : friend Bob" along he didn't
like to be away from = Bob . when he is seasick and
thinks about home and all that sort of thing.
We talked the matter all over, me and the officer
we did. He's a splendid fellow-so kind and consid-
crate of an old mans feelings like me, yon know.
He's been up to my house-stopped there once {;
liked the view over the ocean, and the cool air said
it was IA pity an old man like me, you know, should
have TO leave his home, because there wasn't no
steamer running. Then he told me what a nice kind
of a steamer the Rii1ray was didn't go too fast,
and make the old men lose their wits. He'd just a
been on a long journey East didn't like the fast
steamers, they kind o scarf him. That's So
says l. Says he, "When l come to see you up there
to your home, | don't want TO wake you up in the
night-an old man like you, You know. 1t wouldn't
benefit either of us to be up O nights" Says l,
IL That's a good idea. l lived to Lahaina once. 1
liked the old KiiiGl1ay-she never got in till after
breakfast, and you know nine o'clock is our break
fast time. SO passengers weren't n coming and want
ing their breakfast on shore, they weren't. We saved
the dinners too-sometimes."
Well, we talked the matter all over, me and the
government officer, you know. lie has such prac-
teal ideas about our home industry this ere KTlla-
cay would give his young friends a splendid job.
You know how public spirited he is, of course he
wouldn't make anything out of it. "Od Money
Bags says he, he don't like to lend his money
but then there is good sccurity-its based on an idea
Silver tongue for collateral and then he got a lit
tie ahead of my time-an old man like me, you know.
But his ideas are practical-they are amt like the
new-fangled nonsense they have nowadays.
Then he told me how they come near :" divorcing -
n nun litIl it NlAtitAuNAN says Aih L Auil u
bit of a fggcr you're using?'' IT'S" says he ;'I
was a lawyer once, they come kind o. natural to me-"
Bless my heart, l wish l could use such good Ian
guagc for your paper, You know. Then he uses such
splendid . hcterodoxcs perhaps now its p~aradoxes
he said, I've forgotten-an old man like me, You
know
Well, he told me how unreasonable some of these
youngsters are nowadays. Says he, "Thcy want
Canarlcrs TO sail iu-thcy Ito. l wouldn't 60 TO
Europe when l was on East. them Canarders are 50
biz. Some folks like 'cm-Ikc 20 have en- here. l
don't sny So, though"
Ky that time the folks began "a come home from
the sewing society. The officer ne got up he shook
hands with mc-so kind to an old man like me, You
know, and | went to bel 81 happy. Just suits me
that oil KIHnu-Iy. l thought ia write TO you all
about it 1t makes mc forget my cacocthcs to write :;
IT feels better.
= S-who'd have Thought it,-hcrc's all that