As My Uncle Would Say

The Maitland Daily Mercury, Wednesday 13 December 1899

MUSWELLBROOK GOSSIP.

I am aware that Muswellbrook news is regularly recorded in the Mercury in a severely decorous style, which from a staid point of
view is of course both right and proper, but the critic has his uses as well as the recorder, and it is in the guise of the former that I
will, with the permission of the Editor, figuratively speaking, make my obeisance to the journal’s readers, and essay to address them.

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It lessens the attendances at the churches, nearly empties them in some cases, fills other places, and — but perhaps the reader is tired, and I’ll therefore consider what my uncle would do if similarly situated, and stop.

JOHN SNOOKER, Britisher