DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOLS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1319, 21 June 1883, Page 4

DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOLS.

Thebe are various kinds of fools. The man who “ didn’t know it was loaded " is perhaps the most numerous in the fraternity. He is often self-destroy-ing, the same as the fool who “ blows out the gas when he retires,” and the fool who “ lights the fire with kerosene.” The tool who jumps off before the boat or steamer gets in, is afflicted with a fatal and mysterious fascination to be very “soon” which impels him to imperil life and limbs needlessly. The fool who carries his walking-stick or umbrella under his arm, and uses it as an eye-destroyer is usually an undeveloped and fresh youth in the know-all existence. He belongs to the same class as the fools who sit cross-legged in horse cars and always block the passage-way for new-comers or out going passengers. That fool of a servant girl who gets hold of the Wong bottle when she seeks to soak the roots of her tongue with a little C.-ooked whisky stolen from the pantip, furnishes business for the doctors with stomach pumps and poison antidotes. Occasionally she makes an end of her existence, but the crop never dies. Individual members of the “ fool ” class are continually make ing away with themselves, but others succeed in their places, and, unwarned by the fate of their predecessors, they profit nothing by observation or experience.