CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 198, 13 December 1872, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

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i HINT TO - •i 7) :• • -.i ( t To, the Editor of the Mount Ida Chbo.viclb.) ,' Sift,—Net. many days,agci; • L and a? friend: i visited ' Ifaseby, in the eviVning, with;the : in-,' tention.of purchasing a .{e\v.:artiel<-s of merchandise ; but, after goinvj. up, one side of the street and down the other, we were considerably disappointed on seeing .that the stores of those gentlemen whom we wished to patronise were closed. .When Isay closed I do- not mean that, the "'shutters' \vere;up,- .and doo: s barred. -What, then;you willask.do I mean ? Simply this—-On every counter sat two,.or. three men, and, leaning in the doors, stood others—nearly all smoking, spitting, talking, and . laughing. None seemed to be buying anything.; ; y«ifr they occupied thV plaei-V of buyers. My' friend would <iiall them loafers, though I explained they were good and independent miners, wlio genierdlly dropped m of an;evening to have a; sbciiil " bracik" : with ; the men of business: I fancy,' however, if the business people studied their own interests t'liey would not I.have 'their places shut up iri the above fashion. ;Jt niuist, I know, be hard for a man to say to his Mends— 4 ' cle&r 5 out" - but I think'that the 'pßiyer qf; a business man in Nasfeby must 6fte r n' be— "my ■friends from me, especially off my counter.—l ijn, &c., . ' ; • "J OuTSIDEBi 1 ■