PEOPLE WHO WILL TALK.
Descending now to the more commonplace realities of everyday life, I would »ay, that jperhaps the most troublesome of all- people- who will talk, and the most difficult to baffle—the more so as he generally " means to' -fee courteous and *ttentiTe-~isA the rgre'at railyray talker. He'generally attacks you as soon as he . has made himself comfortable with his rugs and his wrappers, and safely bestowed -his bags and umbrellas, with a remark upon the weather. He dilates . upon the variableness of "the _ English climate,' a subject regarding which there is not likely to be much difference of Opinion. During an'interral, occupied, in skimming the papers, he asks what I think of "the leading article-on the state of Europe.. "Very critical-^tremendous fellow that Bismarck!'' &c. Thus we gep to Reading, hoping he has done; but no! •'Wonderful expansion of this once pleasant, but insignificant town. I knew it, sir,-when I was a boy—all attributable v tp the railways." (Profound and original remark.) Upon this incontinently I fall asleep;-- At Swindon I hare serious intentions of changing my carriage, with • an appearance :of going to Gloucester or South Wales; but I have too many loose packages, comfortably arranged in my carriage, to resort to this mode of escape, go I take my place in the old corner and resume, or pretend to resume, my nap. I open my eyes, as the first view of Bath offers itself to him, and my friend is quite ready. "Beautiful city, sir';'l was,at school at Bath—know it well —great deal about' Bath in last.' Cornhill '—have you read it, sir ? " I answer in the affirmative, and' might add, "Ayd, arid, wrote it too." Now my release is not far off. The man who will talk is going to Bristol.' Bravo! only a few more miles more and he leaves me,not a bad "fellow in the main; but his insatiable love of hearing his tongue makes him absolutely a bore.— '"^Cornhill Magazine^
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1998, 31 May 1875, Page 3
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