QUALITY-FOLK TOO.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 188, 27 January 1877, Page 2

QUALITY-FOLK TOO.

Tiik following story is given in the biography ot the late Ilev. Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar o[ Morwenstow, Cornwail: The vicar was generally required to read the peasantry’s letters, and sometimes to write their answers. On one occasion he was reading a letter to an old woman of Willcome, whose son was in Brazil. Part o( the letter ran—- “ I cannot tell you, dear mother, how the muskiltios (mosquitoes) toiment me. They never leave me alone, but pursue me everywhere.” “To think of that!” interrupted the old woman. “My Ezekiel must he a handsome lad. But I’m interrupting you ; do go on, please, parson.” “ Indeed, mother,” continued the vicar, reading, “ 1 shut my door and window of an evening to keep them out ot my room.” “ Dear life,” exclaimed the old woman, “ what will the world come to next !” “ And yet,” continued the vicar, “ they do not leave me alone. L believe they come down tiie chimney to get at me.” “ Well, well, now, parson,” continued the mother, holding up her hands ; “to think how forward of them !” “ Of whom ?” “ Why, the Miss Kitties, sure ! When 1 were young, maidens would have blushed to do such a thing. And come down the chimney, too !” After a pause, the mother’s pride prevailing, she said, “ But Ezekiel must bo rare handsome for the maidens to be after him so. And I reckon the Miss Kitties is quality-folk too.”