APOLOGIZES.
| A delightful story is told of Thos. ! Poole. When "a person of some local importance, and with certain claims to respect and deference," which everybody recognised took it in his head to hold forth in Toole's presence —perhaps out of pure love of irritating a fellow-creature—in .authoritative disparagement o,f Coleridge and Wordsworth, Poole boiled over, and told the reviler, in the most emphatic manner, that he was a fool. Pooflp was sorry for it, afterwards. "Did I call him a fool? How very ' wrong of me ! How very wrong ! 'Would it do any good to apologize? j I am sure, if it. would give him any .satisfaction. T would apologize in a 1 moment." So he returned — "I am sure, sir. I am very sorry I was rude to you just now. T apologize most sincerely. I wish T wasn't so hasty. 11 was extremely wrong of me. Rutbut—but" (with a gulp, as if he were all but choking) "how could you be such a confounded fool ?"
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2643, 21 January 1908, Page 7
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