THE HERTFORDSHIRE LADS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1461, 15 November 1879, Page 24

THE HERTFORDSHIRE LADS.

Some years ago, ab a Sussex coach was passing by an avenue leading to the residenoe of Mr Bull, the ooaohman pulled up on seeing a boy walking leisurely along, aad handed a parcel to him, telling him to take it direotly to Mr T. B. The boy looked rather vacant and doubtful, and he was told to look {sharp, and not stand gaping there, but deliver it instantly j upon which the boy began to cry. Upon a passenger remarking this to the ooaohman, "Ah !" says he, "the boys always ory hereabouts if you apeak to 'em ; but about Linneld they are saucy enough. I recollect last 'summer taking a walk in that neighbourhood with the driver of the coach ; we happened to lose our way ; on seeing a boy sitting on a gate as we turned down a lane, my companion said — * I say, Jaok, oan you tell us which is the nearest way to Linneld ?' • How did thee know my name was Jack ?' 'Oh, we guessed so.' * Then thee may guess the way to Linneld, for I'll be hanged if I tell thee.'" A lady travelling on horseback in Hertfordshire, was told that the boys in that country were very rude and impudent ; upon coming to a five-barred gate, she requested a boy who was lolling against it to open it for her, which, to her great surprise, he did. She then gave him a shilling, saving, that she was sure he was not a Hertfordshire lad, as he waß so oivil. "Ther't a liar," replied the boy, "Ibe's."