THE SNEAK WE ALL DETEST.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 920, 16 May 1878, Page 2

THE SNEAK WE ALL DETEST.

Sir,—This classification is not perhaps the most exact, and at a future date I may simplify the science of the many species of mankind; then the most unpleasant is the sneak that we all detest. I must confess that there is something abhorent in applying such an epithet to man, whose normal nature suggests all that is pure ; but it is not man's nature that is here detested, but simply tho embodinient of that nature in a few blatant 'individuals,, who have clothed themselves hi repulsive garments, that excite the sentiment, of detestation, and unhappily society exhibits too many instances of men of this class for one to omit the fact of their existence, or palliate their conduct. Society not only exhibits these, but suffers sadly from their handiwork.. Their crimes are too many and too henious to be passed over in silence. The sneak we all detest, is, in the first place, a meddler; he has the happy knack of prying into everybody's business, and hia little brains are like an inventory where the affairs of his neighbours are registered in order and learned by heart; and not only their affairs, in a business sense, but their desires—their likings and disUkings —are industriously conned at the very-first occasion, to be proclaimed upon the house-tops and in the streets. It is not his nature to be true to anybody but himself very long. He is utterly incapable of gratitude, and will bite the hand which fed him, although his actions may lacerate the tenderest sensibilities and wound whole circles of friemds.' Being a meddler, he is always planning schemes of his own, which will interfere with the private resolves of other people. His meddlesome and officious disposition leads him into many a fray, but as soon as the combat begins he leaves the combatants to fight for themselves whilst he quietly sneaks away. A man of this class could never succeed as long as he does did he not possess a smooth tongue, This he has, and it 13 well developed, giving an imctuousness to all his x phrases. H* knows how to oover his traok so that hi a most dear friends are unawaro q£ the poison Jbehind his foul tongue * You m>uM hm-dly take him for a diss'embler for he is extremely femmhielike in hi*' lemeauour, never publicly gi ve3 way t * pa Saon,lß courteous, au d likes to Lib.