Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-09
TALK

In 1856 when AbdeI Kafer was in Paris,
he remarked on seeing some noted paint
ings of the Franco Algerian unpleasant
ness, eff I had arts I too would have
pictures"
So perhaps in a similar frame of mind
might Richard Brinsley Sheridan say we're
he cognizant of the recent gossip of Rich
ard Grant White concerning him, and his
getting of a pair Of boots in Bristol once
without paying for them, by the clever
ruse Of having two bootmakers simultane-
ously make pair and by feigning dissat-
isfaction with one boot at time, secure a
pair while the dupes were making the
changes with the others.
'Riding cut Of Bristol" says Mr. White
with honest, even pathetic indig
nation, leaving two human victims to
whistle for their money. The young scamp
became the Ri. Hon. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan and in his maturer years he did
not fail to fulfill the promise of his
YOUTH
May Heaven our souls assoilzie, but this
Is curious arrangement of dead and
therefore unanswering SHERRY" from
curious quarter! Out of his tomb in West
minister Abbey the rollicking impecunious,
claret drinking Irishman could retort
while inspecting his aocuser az an excel
lent model for any fresh touches to the
character of Joseph Surface.
White, my good boy, don't bestow SO
much attention and remark upon that pair
Of obsolete boots. I needed them
and l hit upon that brilliant method of so
curing them. But come now, did you,
having wife, really need Miss Isabel Ayl
mer Ariel so much that she has sued you
for seduction and bastardy, and the suit
was pending in the supreme court of New
York until your influential friends, Isaac
Il. Bailey, one of the commissioners of
charities ard corrections, threatened your
dainty Ariel with punishment for immor-
atty if she persisted IN e suit against you,
and The incorrup tible David Dudley Field,
youC intimate friend, warned her not to
MAKO any scandal, or it
would be worse for her.
Moreover the incorruptible and stainless
Mr.. David Dudley Field in the role of
pacifcator as it we're, with ''Erie" tactics,
got some of your tell-tale letters from the
dainty Ariel, and of course never returned
them. Pom my word, White, this charac-
istic maneuyer of your cunning friend is
to me- the most tantalizing conhetemps of
all. Here was an opportunity for the
public to study your life long hobby.
Words and their Uses," in an exemplif-
cation that would give you the largest and
most ardently interested number of readers
your ambition could crave in a legitimate
way. But this is strictly illegitimate, and
that reminds me when the dainty
ARIEL insisted upon q guaran-
tee of permanent support for her
self and your child Zone being dead), you
refused to give anything more than a
round sum down, and a very small round
sum at that, while even this offer was 10
be of no cccount unless the suits were
withdrawn. Now with my former appre-
hansion Of fun, I am tempted to quote
leaving t~n human victims to whistle for
their money" Only nresumabIv yonr
victims can't whistle with the same natur
NJ facility Us those boot makers Of Bristol.
Could have foreseen that I would have
Tom Moore to rob me geographically Of
every ray of originality and wit merely to
put money in his purse, and that you, my
virtuous White, in the small drivel of mag
azine and newspaper tattle, could turn
penny in exhuming long
buried frailties;-and last though not least
with the deoorous and severe Mrs. Oil
phant impaling me in thei"English Men of
Letters" series, by my tomb here in West
minister Abbey, I'd have tried to do bet-
ter,-or, I'd at least have selected my
friends with reference to cloaking my
ugly scrapes, as you did, and not COM
promising word could be got in the news
papers either. But you see di3'nt man
age well, and [ was constructed without
any idea whatever of pecnniery cbliga-
tions.
1 borrowed money like brigaud, that
Is l levied It, and there was the last of the
transaction; I drank more than was good for
me-but it was in q generation that drank
It's three bottles OF vine and more at din
ner, without counting luncheon and other
times, and the test was carrying it like a
gentleman"
% lar III money ana drink,
In love, took my sweetheart, Miss Lin
ley, TO q convent in France to save her
from the infamous prosecutions of q |
fashionable villain.
married her privately at Calais for her
good names sake, should it ever bs ;ques- |
toned. fought two dpels with her per
scouting scoundrelty admirer and I mar
Eied her a second time after a year had |
elapsed. If progressionists of your school
my virluous White, bore in mind the
simple illustration of the mote |
and the beam in view of the Ariel
episode, you could not be quite so severe
over that old boot affair OF mine, nor
deduce from it 8 that in his maturer years
he did not fail to fulfil the promise of his
youth"
Besides being msn of letters |
yourself, you CO not know how soon yorr |
turn may come, aud then what of the |
promise of yolW youth and its fzlflment |
in maturer years?'