FRIENDLY ADVICE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2763, 29 March 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)

FRIENDLY ADVICE.

" Ix giving good advice," says Mr Jaines Payn, " it is taken for granted that the donor should be acquainted with the concerns of the person he proposes to beiK-fit; what is not so well understood is that the recipient should be equally well informed about Uiu circumstances of the giver. A shocking example once occurred through the ueglect of the latter precaution. Two coachmen, A. and 8., were in a certaiu teut at Ascot races, when A's. master came in to order his horses. 'They ought,' he said., ' to have been brought round a quarter of an hour ago.' ' Never you niinJ,' said the coachman, 'it is quite unnecessary to put yourself in a pucker about it, and, to a pefiQif with your habit of body, very dangerous this hot weather. My horses will be itj plenty of time!' ' Very good !' replied the master, and meekly went his way. ' Well, upon my life,' said B. to A., 4 that was pretty language to use to your governor'l 'I always doit,' returned A. quietly. ' When you have beeu * coachman as long- as I have, you will fiod it's tho best plan." B. was struck with this, and when, after his friend had gone, his master caino in, and, in his tnrn inquired impatiently after .his horses, ho replied, 'Never you mind; it is quite unnecessary to put voursrlf iu a pucker /' The whole snntenee was not. finished, becauso at this point his naa-ster took him by the collar and kicked him out of tho tent. When B. met A., some tamo afterwards, he bitterly reproached him. ' A pretty fellow you are to givu a chap good advice ! I have lost my situation through saying the very anno words to my governor that I heard you say to youw'J ' I am very sorry for that said a with A. grin; 'perhaps I ought to have told you that my governor is stone-deaf.' "