CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 236, 12 September 1873, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the' Editor of the Mount Ida Cheonictve.) Sir,—On seeing two entire horses, gaily caparisoned, daily being led through the main street of our ch arming ■ little tOwnI ship—goats, gamboling in " maiden meditation, fancy free " among my neighbor's cabbages and flowers —pigs committing burglary in open daylight at my back gatetwelve unregistered'dogs in the road daring a registered dog on a door step to open combat—cow, charitably supposed to be blind, eating snow, tailings, and carpenter's chips in a back street, and supporting itself between meals against the back window of an hotel,—after seeing ail this, I have determined on the purchase of a tarne bear, and a vicious monkey (I am disposed for the whole and sole purpose of entertaining my neighbors," and promoting the cultivation of classical oaths; and I sincerely hope the hard worked sub-In-spector, and in.fact the whole force here, supplemented by the Town Clerk, will be as blind to my little pets as to those of my neighbors. In some towns the Corporation authorise a man to impound all stray goats, pigs, and cows that go thinking about our ways; and if not claimed within three days—kill them. But this is cruel, and wicked, and un-neighborly. I think Shakespeare must have kept goats, pigs, and cows to annoy his neighbors, or why did he write—" Oh that we could call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites."—l am, &c. - GuiIIELMUS FITZB ATTLE AXE-