PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO REFORM.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9867, 25 March 1893, Page 4

PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO REFORM.

List No. 1. Tho Cable * Canarder ’ Tho Coal Dealer Tho Grocery Man The Cigar Man and The Financial Agont The Hotelkeeper. The coal man whose early education was ao ohimofnlly noglooted that he thlnketh 17owt 2qre 141bs make a ton. • Tho Royal cable 1 canard or, 1 who sendetb * sonsatlonal message to-day with the distinct intention of contradicting t tomorrow The cigar man, who smileth a beantlfnl smile, and bandsth his customer a cigar—raw, groan, and ill-fiavoared—and guarantees It a genuine Havannab, althongh he knoweth tho tobacco was grown in the vicinity of Hamburg, and that article the itself was mannfaotnred at the same place. . The 11 financial agsnt ” (the modern name for pawnbroker and nearer) who prideth himself on being a “friend in adversity,” etc., and who, as most poople know, 11 atioketh closer than a brother.” Tho grocery man, who" Inoroaaeth his stock of tea by lavishly introducing sundry fiavonry herbs, the leaves of which are carefully rolled to resemble the genuine leaf. The hotelkeeper, who oollecteth Buchanan’s House of Commons Whisky bottles and filleth toom with an inferior spirit, and is thns the direct cense of the distinctly expressive language which ia jerked spasmodically from between the teeth of his angry customers. 1