THE AMENITIES OF CIVILIZATION
One of these is that a respectable member of society is compelled to pocket such a gross affront as the following without braining the insulter. A gentleman has an office as well known as the town clock, and is constantly about either there or on the street, and yet a filthy-looking, unwashed, beery bum-bailiff chooses the time when he is on duty in full uniform as a volunteer to serve ,a summons on him. The law which aPows kTf such gratuitous insults, and that which so <r tenderly protects the dirty hide of the low i ruffian of a bailiff, are alike a long way astray from any code of honourable dealing. Why should the scurvy-looking loafer have pitched upon such a moment when he could have seen his man at any time in his own office, or at a less frequented place on the street, if it was not to add all he could by coarse insult to the pain he must know his attentions are sure to cause anyhow. The Governmental department of which such wretches are parasites should see that they carry out their offensive office in a more decent manner.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 237, 28 March 1885, Page 3
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198THE AMENITIES OF CIVILIZATION Observer, Volume 7, Issue 237, 28 March 1885, Page 3
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