Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-08-09

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of INV fellow-man. / am willing that
the law should i'm all ordinary cases
take its course, but when we begin 10
discuss the man who breaks into con-
versation and ruins it with his own IT.
relevant ideas, regardless OF the feelings
of humanity, am not law ana ORDER
man. The spirit of the "Red vigil
anter'' Is reused i'm my breast and l
hunger for the blood of that man.
Interrupters are of two classes: First,
the common plug who thinks aloud and
whose conversation wanders with his
so-called mind. He breaks into the sad
dest and sweetest of sentiment, and the
choicest and most fearful of pathos,
with the remorseless ignorance that
marks stump-tailed cow in dahlia
bed. He is the bull in my china shop.
the NORWOOD in my wine, and the
kerosene in my maple syrup. / am shy
in conversation, and my unfettered
flights Of poesy and sentiment are rare,
but this man is almost always near to
mar it all with remark, or marginal
note, or story or bit of politics,
| ready to bust my beautiful dream and
make me wish that his name might be
carved on a marble slab in some quiet
cemetery, far away.
| Dear reader, did you ever meet this
manor his wifep Did you ever strike
some beautiful thought and begin To
reel it off to your friends only to be shat
off in the middle of a sentence by this
choice and banner idiot of conversation!
If so come and sit by me, and you may
pour your woes into my ear, and l in
turn will pour few gallons into your
listening ear.
do not care to talk more than my
share of the time, but 1 would be glad
to arrive at a conclusion just to see how
it would seem. would be so pleased
and so Joyous to follow up an anecdote
till had reached the "nub," as it were,
to chase argument home to conviction
and to clinch assertion with authority
and evidence.
The second class of interrupters are
even worse. 1t consists OF the man
and, am panied to state, his wife also
who see the general drift of your re-
marks and finish out your story, your
gem of thought or your argument. 1t
is very seldom that they do this as you
, would do it yourself, but they are kind
and thoughtful and their services are
ALWAYS at hand. No matter how busy
they may be, they will leave their own
work and fly to your aid. With the
light of sympathy in their eyes, they
rush into the conversation and, partak-
o, ing of your own zeal, they take the
|. words from your mouth, and cheerfully
: suck the juice out of your joke, handing
!, back the rind and hoping for reward
: That is where they get left so far as
am concerned. / am almost always ready
= to repay rudeness with rudeness, and
! cold preserved gall with such acrid sar.
! casm as / may be able to secure at the
i moment. No one will ever know how
: yearn for the blood of the .interrupter
> At night camp on his trail, and all the
}. day | thirst for his warm life's current
! In my dreams | am cutting his scalI
;. loose with caseknife, while my finger.
u are twined in his clustering hair.
: walk over him and promenade across
: his abdomen as | slumber. | hear hi
ribs crack, and see his tongue hans
Ii over his shoulder as he smiles death
: mrthful smile.
. do not interrupt man no more
, than / would tell him he lied. giv'
" him chance to win applause or decom
: posed eggs from the audience accordin:
!. 10 what he has to say, and according Il
u the profundity of his profund. All
) want is n similar chance and room &C
. cording to my strength, Common do
{, cency ought to govern conversation
- % without its being necessary to hire n
d umpire armed with four-foot club, +
$ announce who is ut the bat and who
on deck.
d 1t Is only once in week or two tina
I. the angel troubles the waters and stir
le up the depths of my conversational pow
n ers, and then the chances are that som
e leprous old nasty toad who has bee
E hanging on the brink of decent societ
+ for two weeks, slides in with a low kel
&c PUNK and my fair blossom of though
l. that has been trying for weeks to bloom
y wluners and goes to seed, while the ma
% with the chilled steel and copper-rivete
I. brow and wad of sef-esteem on hi
= intellectual balcony as big as an ink
y stand, walks slowly away to think c
's some other dazzling gem, and thus b
really to bust my beautiful phantor
and tear out my high-priced bulbs @
fancy the next time l open my mouth