THEM FOOTPATHS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3321, 14 August 1879, Page 2

THEM FOOTPATHS.

Sib,—l am of a meditative temperament, live in Davy street south, and pay rates. I have: been meditative. ; ainoe youth, and paid rates and. lived in Davy street for nine years. Now, I don tr' object to living in Davy street, or paying rates, but what I do object is that the Council won't do anything with wu footpaths. . They seem to forget our existence altogether, I notice the rate collector never forget! to come round. The other night Iwu going along home in a/deeply meditative mood. My unfettered spirit W6f travelling through, the fairy of fancy; '' and Utopian sohemea pervaded my teeming brain—when crack goes »y big toe against one of those beastly wcoden gutters, and all the sentiment went out of me like water out of a collander; but in my agony I had sufficient Christian virtue left to call on Heaven to forgive old Tom Hawdon... And, then I painfully hopped on homewards till, with a »p!a»K I am up to my ankles in a duckpond—"ou* lake, the residents facetiously call it I fully expect to hear of Lttil Melkove or little Coe Jarter being drowned in it one of these days—nights, I mnh^-rYfmn Cynically.' •'" ■'■'•'"' '"V-.^a Count dk Btruu..