IIASZARJTS GAZETTE, N()VE.'tII}I.".II. 94-. TAI‘LE'l“()IhI(S, IIISIOIEICJLLY II:\Nl)I..l‘il). ‘ (From C/tamhc-rs’: Journal.)

‘I oust-mvzn a custom in all those lt.1.lian cltivs and towns through the which I passed, that is

1 marks. can scarcely be understood in tln-..sa1uo. ll'11IIICiLl some us one to be found in the writitigs o‘ a l.-;tc1' instructor in convivial gll.llAl|lI‘_Y9 \\’l:ond\'i1-tvs that. i11 l:olpin;: pigeons, the legs: _ .

l “(h1cctln-to was :1 r;cl1 tumor 3" 1|,“ ,.,_,m_

of the p11;:.zlc11u-nt of the native gentry about ,, scap~dish. which some tliouglit most pi-0b,,“ ‘a thing for uiakiing tea.—— ‘ .] I

"(,0-—.—_..

-M0¢'I‘t‘_rQ/'!_. The laudable use 1 f I'ml.:1. Brought into custom here 11-: they are in holy, To the sparing of n:1pkinI,&c.

Beckuiann, to wl:on1 we owe out-mfor mation and rinimm would bu gin" m ladies‘ 3,, ,),,p.,-'

not used in any ULlu‘l' country that I saw in my travels, iioitlzcr do I think that any other na- hon ofCl1ri1-tcridoni doth use it, but only Italy.‘ 50 writes the 61d E11,;lisl1truvr-llcr 'l‘homas Coryate, in that book of his, qltaintly cnlitlctl Crmlitics, and published in the year of grace lliII.' I11 I605, 'I‘ho1nu.s has lieen travelling through France, Italy, bfivitzerland, and parts of Germany; and in his Crudmcs appear the results of the tour. But what is the unique which 'I'l1omas has observed in It.1ly. and to I knowledge of which lie introduces his liritish countrymen in the said year of grace It is neither more nor less than the use ol' forks at table. '.l‘l1o1n:15 Coryate is struck, and amused withal, by the obst-rvaticc i11 ltalyofa custom which he bclicvcs—and he is an experi- enced travellcr—not Unrlstcndom at large can olscwltore shew nu example of. II1-ar him dc- tail the pvanrlial pln.~nomcnon: ‘The Italian, and also most stra11;;e1's that are coniuioraitt in Italy, do always at their tn:-uls use a little fork when they cut their meat. For while with their knife, which they hold i11 one hand. they cut, 0 meat out of the dish, they f.1stc11 tllt ir fork, which they hold in their other band, upon the Game dish ; so that whatsoever he he that, sit. ting in the company ol' any others at im.~aI, ehould unavisedly touch the dish of meat with his fingers l'rom which all at the table do cut. he will give occasion of oflcnce unto the com- pany, as having Lranagrcsscd the laws of ood- xnauners, insomueh that for his error he shall be at least browbsaten, if not reprehended on words. ’I‘his form of feeding, I understand, is gnerally used in all places ofltaly ;their forks ing. for the most part. made of iron or steel. and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen.’ Honest Thomas Coryate was quite taken with-this new-fangledcuriosity——fo: a curiosity it was to him to all intents and par- £oses——1ind as a curiosity he put it down in luck and white for the amusement of his read- ers. ‘And the reason of this curiosity is,‘ he goes on to say, ‘because the Italian cannot by any means endure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are alike clean.’ Very right, too, thought Thomas. , when he got back again to the White Cliliis. and was set down before the roast-beet‘ of Old England, in that self-same year of grace 1608, forthwith he resolved to naturalise that Itilian exotic, by planting it on his own table : and lie 'd so And men sa.w,aud marvelh.-d ; some thougntit a good idea,and others voted him an atleetcd Snapper up of uncunsidered trifles ;

and all, with one consent, all England over. called him Fur:-j/Yr for his pains. Furcifer, the fa-k bearer ; such was the liunous ‘style’ he- ltowod on'I‘11o111as Cor-yato, the first man who ever used a t-ihlc-fork in Great ritian. We can fancy the Latin sobtiquct, with its why and wherefore, mi,;ht1ly relished by King James, partaking without tork, whether ix-..n or silver, of his regal l'('p7l8I, and cracl-;in;.: jokes, riglitrogalatid pcdatitic, at the expense o.'I*‘urcitcrous l‘l1.i'.11a:t, and to the tlclectation, us in duty hound, of his niajcstv's faithful and forklcss guests. Records ot royal fare. during that Illu.-5lI'lOu8 rcigu,arc existing in abundance; and we are to so] po:e the inguinal. and his fsicnds in every iust.111ce without table-forks, disposing with a good-will now of ‘-,.“i8,,,, paty, now of Paris pie; uuon,of ‘rost kidd, wlu-ll,’ or of ‘lioylcd carpe, l1ot;’jn 3 him,‘ aga1n.§ol" chim-sol'sul111o11, lu-0):.-d,t.,r ,-,,_.;,,,u, tin with oystr.-rs,’ or ‘ sweet breudc pic.’ or mar- I_-,-d s.n.-ltr,‘ or ‘siwsseil pig: ;’ then launching into an occun of sweets and goodies, in tho shape of q‘-1l||(‘0~Irl‘.‘, c.mdied-tart. musk-pear pasto, orange-cointit, ul11:o111.l-lcsu.-‘.i, .“;.-.—u,ll amiuliiiuch2111.11-king of lips and cla: cr ofknivu-s and -no, no‘ forks. We can llmcv his "3,-,- _ic»tyl'.’:u1i11-,; back 111 his chair to h:1v'- his lau«_;'1 out,;1sso1ac t'0l|I'llt.‘I‘, of S.tll'1‘l<':l.l lt'lll]tt‘|' :ci1d 'IIlc|‘M'_y 143310. pg-or-.-2,-its to <p1_otct}:1: hnalcof: .ll1on1.1s ( oi-y.1lc s ciniptcr on lurks as l'-vllo.'.'s: ‘llcrcupott I my st.-ll‘ ti-ou‘-_vht ;_:ootl to in1it.1te the Italiati f.1sl.ion by tl.f.-i lo1":1-tlruLt".11;; ofmrgxt, not only \'.‘hi'o I was in It:1l'.'. but :lI\'.’) if] (J,-1-. lntmy,u.11lloI't.‘i1ti111tsin I‘i11::l:1n1l r.l...:;,- I (-,-I ,, I1o_i‘.11-, Icing <11).-1: qiiippcgd for 1!“; [',-,,|._. ,_g_ ll.~t:1_';vf11:_\' loik by .1. t't'l‘l:lllI l--.:rn-1| _-_-‘....1)c.I m:i11,a flnuliar lricu-lof mine, one Mr. I...\'.'- l'(~t1t:o W1 it.tl<c1‘, win in his in ~rrv hum rnri doubt-‘ll It It la (‘all 1111.-at table i"11i:1if(r.n1.-ly

on this as on no man other matters, in Ilia-(cry r/' Ina-cnIiuns,11l'tcr l’('lltilI'lxIllg that in lf‘ra11cc. at the close of the sixt,cc11tl1cr~11tuv_\'. loi-ks even at court were entirely new, and that they had not found their way i11to b'u'edcn,u1lds

‘lint it must appear st1‘:111_.;-3 rnottgb that 'l'l.o- unis Uoryuto, the lI'll\'t‘llL‘I', sl1o1.ld sce forks for the that time in Italy. a11d i11 the same year lw the first person to use tlzem in l'Jnglaud-—fron~. which circumstance he was fucetiously nie named Fur:-il'er.’ In Italy itself, we are told, the use of forks was first known about the end of the fifteenth century ; that is to say, ilnrinsz the latter years of Lorenzo do: Mcrlici and his brillunt associates, while Clntrlcs VIII. king of l"ranc.e, and the 11-st of the Tudors reigned prospcrously in I-England. A certain Italian, Gal:-otus Martins by name, who resided at the court of llungmry in the rcignol'l\lattl1i:1s Corvinus (l45S—-I4‘.)() A. 1).), informs us, in his memoirs of that turbulent rincc, thatat that peri--d, forks were not use .-it. tahlc—us tllU_V then were in mrny arts of Italy——but at meals each person laid ho d of the meat with his lin- gers. whence ensued an unplcasing assimilation of the said fingers, to the colour 1)!‘ the duck's- foot, on account of the ‘much sufiion then put ' The writer praises Mat-

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into sauces and son thins Corvinus himself for his kiugly knack of ‘eating without a fork, yet keeping up the table- talk meanwhile, and never sincariug his clothes.’

Attempts have made to shew that the ancients must have known and used tabic-forks, or some- thing equivalent; and dietonaries are appealed, and res an Latin nouns-substantive are adduced, to prove the point. Does not the Greek word 'r¢ag1a mean a fork ?—we are asked. Does not Atlienwus (author of those ainusin Noctr.r)—do not he. and Pollux, and Ca , mention krongrn. among kitchen utensils? ' ‘hat may be; as a large Ilcsl‘.-hook. to-wit, for the cook to use in hauling up 11. mass of boiled meat lro111 the pot; not at all as a table-lork. for civilized creatures to use in efl'seti11,-.1; the transit of food from plate to mouth. It was ‘ from hand to mouth, very literally, that our ancestors sic and lived. bu. again, the Latin words furr1.‘_/‘vi-cil/a, and 0l.llt'I‘S, may be trans- lated forks. i; you please ; but then it is to the class ot'l1ay-forks, tridents, &c., not of table- forks, that they and their kind belong. Let it be borne in mind, however, that the fund put upon the table of the ancients was considerably more ' tender‘ than what now-a days vcxcs our

igcstion. Furthermore, that all articles of food were cut into tiny bits before they were served a , which was the more neccssary,as the guests did not sit at table. but reclined on couches, in a posture that would not leave both hands at liberty. ‘ For cutting meat, persons of rank kc tin their houses a carver, who had learned to perform his dutyut-cording to certain s.’ This carver, Bcc maun adds, used a knit’:-—the only one placed on the table. and which in the mansions of the rich had an ivory ndlc, 11nd was commonnly ornamented with llrr.-a was brokrn. nevcr cut—hcin;; baked in thin cakes, liko tl-c Jc\\'.=4'p11sso\'cI‘- bread, or the out-meal cakes of North Brit:-.i11. Juvcual, it is remarked. \\ hen he vvisbcs to describe stale dried old hr» ad, passtd oil by :1 r-hurlish host on his ‘ poor relations," while his grantlcr visitors are rc;::1lc«l on the bakri-‘s 111.-west, finest, be.~'t-—do«-s not say that it could not h1:rul,but that it could not be brok-.-n : .\I:1rk with what scorn that otln-r d1-als your stint Uflvreul in rnouldy I'r;1gn11~11ts, lI.1til :1.-' llint; l"r.-tgriicots your l:1b‘riug gri:-t|.~:s r-.11111ot bite in! your lord‘sbrc:1rl, how fun‘, lam line, how whit:-I But this is a (li;.v,rcs.~ion ll‘IIlll forks ; suffice it to say. that had they la-cn 1:.-u.‘(I by tl:c::11cicnts.

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evidence ofsuclt 11s:1ge1-inst haw l-I_-rlt hunt.-d .

out by i11v(-.~1ti;_':1t(-1'2; so lyitx-cycd us Iliornstalil lltnl '.art1il'1ldi («'1' nr/.‘u.~: (‘07ll‘Il’0fIfIll3); and

Y ,\\it.l1ont tln':!1('.‘.'(it. .-1

altl-ou;_:h a silver t\vo~pro11g_'ed fork v.a.~1 found :-.n1on-,: ruhbisli i11 the Appian W:1_v,a1i1l sonn- :1l‘!i('lrS were (lisco\'ci‘c1l by (-'ri;;11oi1 in tho rui1..s' ofa ii-.-t11:1n town in Cl1.1111p:1_-_:1.1-, which be pi'o11o111u-rs t:1blc-forlis, yct are the ago and

t1I:‘.lIol'(l them 1111 opportunity of displaying L'.cir white and taper lin-,v_t-rs in small bones.

but from llL‘(!t‘l-H‘Il '. liven 11 ftcr .\Iastcr 'l'l1o1nas (‘oryatc bad i11tro- ducod tablc-forlcs a1i1t11v,;,st us, they must have worked their way very slowly into gcueratl two. 'I‘hcy were still an object of \\':1g-,;-rry in 647, when John Fleteltv.-r’e Queen of (‘orinII1 was publislied. where the '..7'utor says, for instance : our '1' heard is the fashion, And twofold doth express lli’ 1:11-‘.11iout"d courlicr, A11 tall as yo1n'_,'”or/.'-can-irtg lrrucllcr five years latcr—nan1ely, in 1652. Wl'_l0l| I3 3l' lowivg more than forty years for l.'oyrate's bobby to amble into notiee~—IIc_vlin, in his tmmagraplzy, alludes to forks as still a compa- rative rarity. Writingoftlicthint-1-to. he says: - 'l‘l1cyurc much given unto their bellies, 1111 cat. thrice a day, but then not itnmoderutely; drink their drink hot, and eat their meat with two sticks ol' ivory, ebony, or tl1o iko, not touching their meat with their hands at all, and therefore no great foulers of linen. The use of silver forks with us. by some of our spruce gallants taken up of late. came from hence into Italy, and thence into kingltlnd.’ lleyli11‘s derivation of that‘ great fact,‘ our silver-fork school, fro111 the chopstick system of the Celestial Em ire, may be rejected without much scruple; ut his evidence to the tardy advance of table-forks us 11. national institution. is valid and significant. To our illustions of the infancy of their career, drawn from our own literature, let us add two others, in prose nd verse respectively. Fynes Morison, in his Ilinerar_1/(1617), when relating the bargain he made with the master of the vessel which was to convey him from Vctiice to Constantinople. says, - He gave as good diet, serving each man with his knife, a spoon, and a fork.‘ Forks must have been. and indeed were, i11 general accept- ance among the civiliscd people of Italy by and before this period. The poetical lragineut referred to will he found in the fourth actof llcn Johnson's Vnlponc, where Sir Politick Would-be gives advice to Peregrine of a kind confirmatory of the ll)I'(?!;1\Illg rcmar :

Then must you learn the use And hat-d.iug ofgour for at meals, The racial of your glass (these are 11min matters \\ ith your Italian). 'I‘l1c knight has friend in a. street ‘in the l1ci;,ght o and sees fit, l1i1n1-clfan old traveller. to set down ‘ some few particu- l-.irs,lit to be known ol' your crude traveller,’ amid \vl1i1-,h as pi-ominctit a place is due to the ' handling of a silver fork at meals.’ as the exipiisitcs of Queen Anne's time ascribe to

'l'l1e nino conduct of :1 clouded czine.

The use of forlzs at table seems to have I cen long com~i1l«rr-d a ‘ superfluous luxury.‘ 'l'l.cy were forbidden in cominon with othr-r pumps and vanitirs. auxiliai-y to the ‘pride ofiif.-,‘ in various cotivcnts and rsli,-_;io11s Imus.-s. .\t.tl1o time Ilcckmatin wrote, they were still a rarity in many pans of SI-aiit. ‘And even yet.’ licobscrvcs. ‘ i11 I’«'|t't".‘ll.‘I, in 1n:1n_v co-.1 - tt'in'H, pai-ti1~ula1-ly in some towns of l"ra1.(-r-, knit--s are not placed on the iallllc-, lu---:11:i<e it is o-xpcc-toil that mcli ]It‘li~'t|lI should l;1\'o om- ufhis o\\n——:t. clist-1111 which the l-'i'--1)-37‘. scvtn to hate r:tuin1~1l from the old (finals. bit as 11op-~1'.~v-u would any l1.11;:,cr out without li1l'liN, llndlords \ve:-1‘ obli;_;v'd to ftirnislt tlmse. to,_'.-- tl.cr with llltllvs:llllll‘1\1tf)l!F.’ \\'l;:‘.t Iil 4-k111:u111 l'1-rctr:u':st.\tl:col1l (i:'.11l.a, is it trim!-r111 until r1'cv.'11tly(-l1crisl:1tll1.v the tnodvrn (incl. ‘ 'l'l.irt_'.* wars :1-.:v>.’ \vrit~ .~= llr..loh11son.i11luis J..:zrn/y

met his V - 1 CIIIC4‘,

In NH‘ ll'<.\'.’z/‘u In/r1m’.< of .\"o//rm:/, ‘ tln: ll1;;l1- latulcr wore his l;ni|": us a t‘l1llll:!lll't‘.l to his dirl. or d;1-,:',:v'1'; and when I111) co1..p.111_v sat down to in:-at. the men who la.11|k11iws cut tl'<- il1-:-31i11-'.«:~1o.'1llpic--A-sll-r the uomtti. \\'l'n\'.'ifl1 thcir l7.1-1-‘rs:-.1211-‘_\ -l it t.) tl1ci1'11iou:ls.’ 'l'l o _::no1l old lir1;tl- Ii--:11‘ ;§ro\\l.-4 n\'0t' suclt l.'lll\'« :4 ;'.~'

the list? oftl:c1=c r.1riti1-s ('tIllSIllL‘U'(l don?-nul to

-1~‘:1_\ tlu.-l1'.‘1st,l1_v 1-.11ulid and coiupctcintjmlg-~s.* l'l:l;§"l1""\‘~‘l'."’ 5" ‘l'l'-' i3""4 l’ ll:---'.1u.'tn11 tlt'lllJL":Il1'l'.‘ :1.~'s~-rte‘. that Ilt‘lIlll 1‘ tin» “'“l l’”l’l"l"'-

(il1'l'l{Hl1-)1‘ the Ilomins have any 11:11:14: for

it;1l-l~-ll-1.\.~:—° now t-U c.~r;c11lial union; 11oll.\l:1'Il l"" ‘-‘ "" l “ .' ""

minions. tl at the wry notion of‘c.1ti1.-,:a111«-:-.l

di.-';:111=t'-—-:1 11-l that no

1llI‘1Il~‘Ut11' mp:-i,-ssioit \\‘llIt'lI\ with tho l«':..<'

I . l olao.-il.i|ity, c.-111bcrc'1-rrrnl to the 11-1: of tlu-1

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fo1'osi1i;;a fork at l'c1e»lin;_f, hut,‘ ’l_'lmm_-:3 L-H;-c. Illlly it-Jals.‘ lor no other ram-e.’ ,\3 Rut.“-g; So11t.’:(‘y s motlmr \t'.Is_j~_-cred in the 1-t1‘cct:i ofl ];":.1.~+t'ol lor_ra11_-,111;; an umbrella, as a mere: 0 .-m1.u. -.2 inuovati at so wt ‘ -“'- " V . . . l‘. 1' i- . .' ll‘ ll"-N“-if “mum.” v.'l:olcs:ilc could not hurt: ot'¢tut't1-Il. 1~Hl1'c so

and 11; mm :1. irst msrtll.-g_ mu-,[‘,.,,,,",. u-1,, , ‘ , 1, “,d‘_,hh,d as “uiml WM_m",m in bank“ m”“1x1:11.~y urn’,-ra_11ipltcl11ts are ccl.cl1r'at.~d by tln. on me ,..p,_;_..,,_ 1\',,,,,. purk ,.m.‘.in,, tn“ "Cr. in I poet-1. or _t.ct~.I1lo 1_v other vttitots , and that f _] H _l- p_ _ ". ‘tltIt'7L'3l. t.11-y must have been 1-.Ilud-.-1| to b\ 111.y -rutu 111 ....iuu1ont ~.mll‘lctcl1cr' and , . . . - M ,,l - »_ . .‘ Iollux, 111 tho very minute and t'ut1tp(-l|1l|1)u.-

Ut I'tI'1l. ii, In In n oIu],§.)n' [Hug cumplunla ‘H . _ _ _ Sled;-i and 1.i:;;.¢,.,] ; c.-1t11lr‘.;:111;'u'lpt}li‘I1e has gl\'cll ol 1irt1.-hs11cccs- 3 "M" 'd'""""l ml‘ r'°"' """ '“"-’ ll" "ll .l"Illlt1‘l'.(‘!.I1I”.0ii )tlie other hand '1. “'1'” known l . ' . I ~ o . e e C e . . 0 -

M-Ll_'}'l"'” "ll ‘l‘;""" ll" 1"” 3"“ ““-l' " l'““"“- cm1plcti110vnl s Art of Lorr, 111 wlm-,l1tl1cp..1-1, ‘ "””' ‘ ‘" " '"l 7 . ad-lrcssinga lady, lays down it rule 111- to the J_l¢¢"--'I'ufl. “mp: my pmyecl oftho forks. polite manner of picking her food with her 51¢’/5% P"‘l-|- WINII lav they? ltiri-gt-rs; which prcco.-pt,a mode.-r11 critic rc-

pt-opln lle I‘.)llI0lvtI*, with rnison, that had t.-1blc—forks been known, this i_';11ori11gof then-

mwd in l'.u;:_l.1.n1l for 1\anhin«,:

l:c:11ct\‘.itl1, :14 lwi11;: ‘ l'l-bl olt.-11 oCl'i«i‘ \1‘l‘_\' '1 :ll't'ItI 'lzl.~l :1» I/ml l‘\1'Vl i11 v.l la-

l':i< !.rt1:t ‘' l‘ I .‘.l< :1lt‘..l ..

1 . ..i .1 .i'I I'l'l'iI‘.i.'ulw'; [1 nplt‘ \\li1i i;_:11o1'1- or 11-,-.=1li.1'c 1.-rl;.~: are in :t mi:mt‘i=_\ ; the c.t11.~ of folks is the c:111.~.--_- ol’pi-.»;,-'1't.~s:

[U “ I‘tl illltl; -. 1'-i . .: in

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For \vo1lo1:l.t 11ottlno1I;;li the .-lg:-.-1 one i11crc.'1~lng |1l’.lpn~o- Ill .3,

occtirs nnywlnrc in the litcr.1t1.1c of citl.1-I .'\lItI-|l't.' tl1ou_;llt.<vf1w-vi are wiil.-in-ll; a:1d.:1.~: :1 1-orri-ll:11_v t.) that proposition, the use of forks is sp1'c:uli11g

vi illt tho ptorre»s nftlic stirs. ['l‘lvol:1te l.io‘lIl-'l.!Ihl-(i1'lI1'l'Itl ll. ll. Ainslie,

:u1ti;or ol':1 work on tl-.e .\11;:lo l"1'«-In-ll. ('oi11:1;:'-, and \\l-oli\'o.l1n1:«-li in l"r:11u-oal'1o;- tho pa-.1--.9

ol'l."i»'I.tI.~'t‘tl to :1w-rt that ho had M-1'11 t'n- llII'tt‘ll)"llII|| of li|1l\'1'~' an-l f\)l'li*, aid nrI".Y itlw-r lit-mlftll uton.-iln, into that coutttrv.

picking the‘.

‘The CJIIIIIUII with whic?1tl1e'

l.ttin poet coiicludcs. I.IIIlI\0H it plain that the.

l'11;:_«_-r.-c were used in his time not from cl1olI.'C,l 9

.li..)1i»'

try” (ilnt is the way in \\'llll'II all old-f.sl.ion,.d stories used to l)t“,tll1 uln-n we acre a hi.)-_ 4- and our old cup was ue\\")——once there was a “C faiiucr u ho had four or five orchards of pp)”. pears. |r.':u'l1t*:=, and other Mac ruits. u; had lulu-11 up :111r1tcur fauiniIn.' alter luu-mg [,,.,," ,1» [moi-kl 11.. "' and :1 successful. 1111..,(.y,,,,_1k_ ing l'.t\\ycrv::: :..\v"i:1 the city. was 0 a “close" tmiurc, and did impart but little of his fruits or his suhstam-u to his friends and in,-ioh. hors i11 the region round about him. He woidd walk about with his “ men" in Ilia mellow nu. t1Iu111 tum-, picking, his luscious fruits, but seldom would he offer any to the hungry passer-by who might look Iongin-,‘|y upon his delicious tn-:1siu._-,_ lIe would even. with his jsek-kiufe, cut from 3 half tlcrnyctl peach, or apple, or pear, or ap,jc,,,' the 1li:it-.'t:r!(I part. and put them in a basket by |ltt‘lllB8l\'t‘S_. " that nothing might be lost.”

Nam there was a plan formed by live or six of his ttcighhouts’ sons, when.-liv to uialtu bitn mom L't!lIt):IIItS lu ollms of the fruiful bountics of Nature \‘VlI0l't‘Wlllt he had been blessed.

This was an :ipp1:a|tu his vanity of fast learn- ing. One aftorttoou, while he was in his chard, picking applrs and pears, near the roadside, he new live or six of his Ill ii_-hhours’ buy; 3‘). prmchiu: i11 t1'1et11aiu road. 'I'l1c_v were appar- ently wrangling concerning at-111:": question then at issue betwrcn thcni.

‘* Well. let us leave it to MLB-—--,"’ said one:‘- he knows. because he has been a lawyer; he is II I('t\!tIclI man, and a man who understands ursuunar.

“ Ar.-roedlz’ said they all; " we will ll'IVO it to I

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r. , “ What is the question in dispute?" asked Mr. II—--. as he approav.-lied 1l1e corner of the fence wlitch lcd along the road. " It is this.” said the head wag: of the party; “ Is It proper to s:1y—wauId it be proper to say, to us, for ox-.11nplc—-we six ——wuuld it be proper lor yomsupposiuga case, to any to all of us, ‘ Will you take a few apples and tears!’ Shouldn't the question, to be gramtnatical, rather he.‘ Will ye take some pears, apples or a . ni;-otsi’ As a gniinmatical question, how shoufd you put it. Mr.li I" “ ‘I be case.” said Mr, I3-——— '- is perfectly simple. ‘ 'au’ is individ- ual. ' yr" includes msuv: as. for example, Saint Paul: ° Ye men and Irrz-I/iron,’ etc. Oh, yes, it‘; :1 plain case. I should. of cottrse, ask your net-lion in this way: ‘Will ye take some pears, applrx, and apricots, gentlemen?’ That would P

lint before he could get another word out, they all rt-plia-rl;

*- ljurtziiiily, Mr. ll . certainly. aml much ohligul to you hr-sidc.~:” “ I am very fond of appl.-5;" -- I slli-ct no fruit so much as a good

:91 .a 1 go i11 for up:-icota—ti1e most doticioug ofall fruit that grows on a tree. ’ And curl: man _iuu.pr-d over the fence and " Itclprd |.im5e|f"' huvmz lcvn inri!ul1o do so in a courteous and r.-ntin,-lv ;, rnmrualiml way!

“'0 lirurebren riiiiimlvd of the foregoing b tlmfollnwinu vcritalnlofazct,t'(w:n1d(‘d in the nu. 1-als ol :1 place ulm-l1 it is not lfl‘('(‘t ssary to name p-.1rt1cul.nlv: but the story is Inn:

“ A few IliL'I1l3 l1:u'li :1 parlv ul ladies and v_vr~n1l.~n.:1u 1vm1- li|ll'_!lllll|_' 1-\'('rtl1v supp:--wul no it. \\'i'l’1l'|f‘.".\‘ alt-~1.1li11u :11l~-1tl.1r:it1o11 of low. it l11-1| 3, g~utlo‘111:'.Iit1|11a1k1'rl.ll1:1t if /IS‘ 1-vcr olfctr-at lum. self, l-c would do it in :1 collected and l)usit1teS- l.l1'n- |~.1:1nm~r.

" ‘ For i. 1-t.11'er-,’ said hi‘. add1r"=sin;_v himself

to :1 M-11111f11l l:1dv p1e.~.c11t, - l \\II|!ltl .- :1): M‘ 0‘ lo "1 '1:;;;-.gr'l two wars i11 l--ol\'llI'_' IN‘ =| “ibr. l mo in the in-cipt n|';; 1-lo-or I1.(-o|111- «."t\\o lllhlf.-itlutl dc-i.‘:.r~_n :1 \¢-;1f n...“ my pm.-1-:11 1-IISIHPES, vvhich i:=1l.11l_v on‘ the l'l'.r";I:Q‘E (If all the ladies of my ac¢p1:1iat.1I\rr-. I .'\'lll:llt‘._\r1|| the 1:111-1. lmln-rl, to spoil; pl.11ulv, I luv:-_vo11,:1nd \\1-Iild 111o:t;_-l.1dl_v tnnlio you “iy u1t'.l'

-- ‘\'11IIll.'Ill1‘rlIn' by your prolc-rrticr-_’ poorl- lIll'l non utlv Il'Illl('ll .\ltss .‘ , to the euipnsc of all pits.-H.

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