PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO REFORM.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9881, 12 April 1893, Page 4

PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO REFORM.

List No. 1, The Cable ‘ Canardot ’ The Coal Dealer The Grocery Man The Cigar Man and The Financial Agent The Hotelkeeper, The coal man whose early education was so shamefully neglected that he thinketh 17owt 2qra 14lbs make a ton. The Roy el cable ‘oanardor,’ who sendeth a sensational message to-day with the dlatlnot Intention of contradicting t tomorrow

The cigar man, who smileth a beautiful smile, and handeth Hs customer a cigar—raw, green, and ill.flavonred—and guarsn. tees It a genuine Havannah, although he knowoth the tobacco was grown In the vicinity of Hamburg, and that the article Itself was mannfaotnrod at the same place. The “ financial agent ” (the modern name for pawnbroker and usurer) who pridoth himself on being a “friend in adversity," etc., and who,as moat people know, " sticketh closer than a brother,”

The grocery man, who Incroasoth hia stock of tea by lavishly Introducing sundry Qavoary herbs, the leaves of which are carefully rolled to resemble the genuine leaf, Tho hotelkoopor, who oolleeteth Buchanan's Housa or Commons Whisky battles o.ud tilloth recta with au inferior spirit, and is thus the direct cause of the distinctly expressive language which is jerked spasmodically from between the teeth of bis angry customers. 1