A Dear young Chick.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 297, 11 May 1889, Page 2

A Dear young Chick.

[TO THE EDITOB.)

Sib,— lt ia wonderful what a great effect arises from a little prod in a sore place—you need only pretend to tickle some people and they jump about as though a mad dog were let loose at their feet. So in the case of “ Single Man, ” who has worked himself into such a passion that (in the dark, hiding behind an assumed name) he flies at Mr Gray’s throat, because that person ha* th* audacity to suggest a plain truth to the Harbor Board. Single Man waxes eloquent on the virtues ofibimself end fellow bachelors, who have arrived at such perfection that (he says) even Mr Bicheno desires no better. Surely he might blow his own trumpet a* loudly a* hs pleases without dragging hi* foreman into th* fall blast of th* brazen instrument, If Mr Bioheno is so satisfisd with things as he finds them in this world, I wish him no worse luck than that in the remorseless ohange* of time, he may go to a better one. However, I have nothing further to say than to ask why, if Singl* Men I* so very sure of hi* billet, he Mt* np such a whine because one he Mesas to despise dsres to make a very reasonabl* suggestion ? The Mayor said tbs argument was sound, yet Single Man makes as much noise about it as if he were a henpecked husband who got bi* hair pulled and the broomstick dusted on his baok regularly every night. If he had a wife her tuition might put a little mor* spirit into him.—l am, dta { Ptf*.