, 1892-11-26

intend to inhict on some particular member o
the party for whom they have no love, by re-
minding him of some Of the disa 5reeable in
cidents Of the sport. Further on You o~Yertske
a group Of somewha older and more sedate
spectators. If you follow on with them YOU
Will hear their mmeutS Says one. Il don't
agree at all with allowing such sport as that.
Dldn t You see how angry some Of those fellows
We're getting? And If they had zone too far.
who would have been to blame? WHY. say.
the owner Of the lot, for permittin. such u
thing" Says another Il think SO too. have .
lost all respect for that man after this. I
used to have a little regard for hiui, but now,
no more transactions with 9im foe me-. A
third remarks It's strange he does nit Dnt
up q decent store house on the lot. | see that
he uses the buildings Of Messrs. Times Herald
& Co, a good deal. / suppose the truth il
lie can get the use of them for a mere SOM
and SO doesn't care to put up 3 building of his
own He put up a buiIeinelr, answers the
next man, why he hasn't HE means. You
can see he is as poor asa church mouse. Be-
sides don't believe lie has the least idea of
making a solid structure, and as for symme.
Try and that sort ofthing, why, he mas no more
eye forit than my old Rover there. No. foI
goodness sake, don't advise him Is put up any
thing Of his WI unless YOU want to add ane1e-
'DAN ~ 1AA~ NCN'Rl iGN MN BN Qi means go on
using the premises of the BIZ firm" 1T has
often occurred to me that he might make q de-
cent Ilttle garden on The lot" SAYS another.
Hell neyernal garden ia hero. answers
Mr.. Critical, "he hasn't the taste for il. Why.
II you even gave him all thn plants. he
wouldn't have the slightest notion of how to
arrange them. lie would be sure to pu. all
the tall plants round the edge If a bed and the
short ones in the middle. ocsone nonsense Of
that sort Well says another, "if he can't
make a decent use Of the lot himself. why
don't he Get somebody else to do it?. Saws
JolHboy, who has been walking quietly aloag
taking IN all these remarks, Now To- tell Won
the truth, | can agree with any of Won fell
lows. | think q Atre up like that now and
again ls q very good thing. 1t makes a. little
Lie IN the place, which you must all admit is
pretty dull, and | don't believe those people
would have hurt one another. All I blame
the owner for is, stopping the sport So early.
We might have had a couple IF hours Of it
Yet, and It was Just getting IiyeIyl For my
part | hope he'll soon give liz another cool
time Says Common Sense. wlo don't 60
much about, but h opens to he Of the party
that evening, Il tell you what it is. if the owner
otthe lot tried to follow the contradictory advice
OF all You good people, / thm6 ne would have
a pretty hard time Of it, and after VII he could
never succeed IN pleasing alIof you. ana in the
end would most likely lose bis ass he means
the Aeis, Of course-"into the bargain" With
this, Common Sense bids them good night. and
the foregoing opinions are given in varying
shapes over and over until the several critics
separate to go to their respective homes.
New, dear render, the bonfire is over. and, of
course, when you read the above, YOU say that
You know that the local pperis the 1rjs and
that the bonfire means some recent corresp1n-
dence which has appeared in its columns but
don't go on to sly that You know VINO Blazem
aud Checkem are, aud all Tire reese Of it. Be
cause now can you, when the whole is 4
pure effort Of the i'm l|Binatlon ? A brilliant
effort, we would have said. if it were not tho
custom among great writer's to maintain 81
lence in regard to the merits of their own
works. "Bfort' you say. yes that's plain
enough; but brilliant, IIal HoI' Perhaps,
then, you will not be inclined to admit that
this article is like q rocket ascending from the
embers Of the recent conlagration. Nor. on
second thoughts, are we for after all what is
a rocket? 1t goes up brilliantly, it Is true, but
after a brief glory down it comes, reduced to
q b%nrnt-out case dragging It's wooden tail
behind it. No, we must spare our article
this humiliation, it shall not go up. Let
us say, with more mode5ty, that it is a squib
lighted at the dying embers Of the fire.
With its extinction all is over.