A MAN AND A DOCUMENT.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 158, 22 September 1883, Page 3

A MAN AND A DOCUMENT.

In a certain rising township in the provincial di&trloljbf — Which, for obvious geasons, we decline to remember the name — the citizens rejoice in ihe* possession of a budding and an original genius, •who occupies the responsible and dignified offices |v of pouhdkeeper and dog registrar, to which load of honour-:l|a^ recently been added (Without cor- ■* yespondingly increased emolument) the office of Inspector of Nuisances. Now, during the short intervals of rest from gathering briars and green furze, to be used as fodder for the impounded .'apJLplalStCmd' capturing. -plump auxl 'vagrant curs,. ' which lie conveyed nightly through the back entrance of a neighbourly butcher who ran a aififfage-mill, he had frequently pondered on the manifold duties devolving on an Inspector of had marked out for 1 Himself

(should he ever attain the coveted title) a line of . action whichy if pursued to the bitter end, would, )t he thought, constitute him a very Napoleon of Inspectors No more were grunting porkers to root in lazy contentment in the main thorough- ..; fares— no more were cleanly housewives to come ' ' fpjjfeh^tia the front 1 entrance and lempty-^well, slops — on I the f ootpa!tfi ; in short,;' he contein*A.plated the inauguration of a reform thorougli and '''' sweeping in its scope, worthy of a Wolseley in its boldness.- > '• * " ■ -

Well, he wag appointed. He came, saw, and conquered, and here is his report presented at the next meeting of the local body— a report the concoction' df which ;cost' him many -bGjurs of anxious thought, as he^seribbled over and tore up several sheets of foolscap by the light of a candle inserted) in ,:the. headless neck of a. "deceased marine. This is the document, as near as type

can render it; but nothing short of photo-

lithography could reproduce the bold, free hand noble .disregaM , for line displayed in tlse 'original :— " Septemttre 3=lßß3.— ln'nspectre 6& Uusianee repoarti — I have Inspected the vPrincipaj. .Parses of . the Borough,, and found them 1 reg'urlar and cleen with the excepsions of three ft' which :I gave Notice too. Bee cieened. Seen one DedW'Dog in .'■'—. — • street. Could not find the owner but had .Hhn Buired for the costs 2 shillinges. — Innspectre of Nusiance. — Septembre 3 x 1883";"-"'"' ': ;;■, \ .; ■ '. . : ' ".';• ' '