The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-03-13
A POSITIVE MAN..

"sp ~ N"o ASIS
Habit of "knowing" Too Much.
"When l was a young fellow said
Mr.. Thomas Bullion, of the well-known
firm of Bullion, Silverley & Co., 81
was the most positive man alive-never
let anybody else say a word when once
I'd made up my mind about any thing.
If I'd heard Nelson talk about sea-
fights or Soycr about cooking, I'd have
been sure to contradict them and make
out l ! knew more about it than they did.
Somebody said nee to my poor brother
JACK, the laWyer-who was rather a
dlctatorlal sort of a chap himself-that
he did well to lag doUn the law, for he
certainly hadn't gained much by taking
" up. But | was every bit as bad as
be was, and worse too"
Mr.. Bullion brought out this last
confession with that sclf-complacent
emphasis wherewith an Englishman
will sometimes own himself guilty of
things which, if laid to his charge by
any other man, would probably impel
him to punch that other mans head on
the spot.
"lou remember that story" he pro-
ceeded, "about the argumentative man
who, hearing a Waterman calling out
under his window one bitter January
night: Past one o'clock, and a fine
starlight morning!' jumped out of bed,
rushed to the window, threw it up and
bawled out to him: YES, but Is it past
n o'clock? Well, sir, that's just the
sort of fellow that / was when | first
started; but I've had a lesson about
contradicting and being positive that
will last me all my life.
"This was how it happened. One
cold morning in the early spring q
don't exactly remember what year it
was, but anyway more years ago than
particularly care to count now),
| was going to the city as usual by ON
nibus. There were four or five other
men in the same line of business as my
self, who generally went in about the
time as l did; and when | got
Into the bus that morning, | found the
whole lot of EN- together. The only
nan there that l didn't know was u
overlooking chap who sat in the far
corner, with his hat so pulled down
vel his eyes and the collar of his gray
'loak so turned up around his neck,
hat his face could hardly be seen at
III; and he kept so still that l made
ure he must be asleep, and thought no 1
more about him. {
swell, we all began talking, and l
omehow or other we came around to I
battle of Waterloo, and there got
p a dispute about whether the gate '
t ~Hougoumont had really been shut v
the French by one man or not. d
nm Lockitt, of Lockitt & Redwood l
le's dead now, poor fellowD, stuck Il
that he had, and I, of course, con- 81
addicted him fiat, and said that it was il
| bosh, and that no N man could be ii
rong enough to do it. G.
"'Ah, we all know your ways, Tom "
US Sam; you'd say black was white, Ii
anybody else said it wasn't. Did G
III happen to be engaged at Waterloo el
'urself without knowing ito' st
"'Nevcr you mind said l, If b
ASH I I've known them that were, or a
at have met others who we're, which Il
the same thing ... d.
"'Of course it is says Sam, wink p
g at the rest. why, Tom, you're W
good as that countryman in tho II
Dry, who, when they asked him if he 70
d ever seen The King, replied: ..Noa, in
saw the King, but I've got q st
'sln as once COON very nigh seem m
Dock o Wellington.'' il
We'll. then I got quite savage, for Oh
those days ! could never abide being to
lghed at; but before I could break ke
one OF the other fellows struck in til
ye
'Look here; we're just three to ie'
ee--sam and we two against Tom Sc
! you two. This gentleman here w
'intlng to the man in the gray cloak)
$ the casting vote. Beg pardon,
which way do you say 1t wasp
The gray-cloaked man turned his