Plain Speech.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1914, Page 3

Plain Speech.

(By Walt. Mason;.

Old Ebenezer Jimpson Jinks takes pride in saying wliat lie thinks. "I do not mince my .jvorde," says he, "but speak my mind out bold and free; and if I do not like a gent, I make it plainly evident; I air my views to beat the band, and people know just Avhere I stand." He takes a toolish pride, methinks, does Ebenezer Jimpson Jinks, in being rude and rough of speech, but few regard him as a peach. He keeps his neighbours hot and sore, and they denounce him as a bore. "We'd pay the freight," they often say, "if he would only move away!" And people dodge him on the street; they hate to hear old Jinks jrepeat "his honest views" on this and that, when views are spoken through his hat. When he steps up to join a crowd, you'd think a cold and clammy shroud had fallen on that bunch of men, who all disperse to meet ! again when "there's no Jinks to give the blues expounding "his straightforward views." If you would have a grist of friends you'll bear in mind that friendship ends, and cordial feeling slinks behind, when- you begin to "speak your mind."