FtHTHER EXPERIENCES OP ME. STALE. 
until you did not know very clearly wbat you were 
about, would omit to put down a name, and its owner 
of course would be put absent, which caused any 
amount of row and ill-feeling on pay-day. Now, that 
friend committed, without intending it, an unfriendly 
action, for, when lie found his host was at the pulp- 
ing house, he ought to have remained at the bun- 
galow until he came, or, if he did trot down to the 
store, should not have entered the cherry loft so long 
as the measuring was in full operation. Men who have 
nothing to do themselves have no right to intrude 
themselves, during working hours, upon those who have. 
We have no intention whatever of discouraging the 
genial hospitalities of the country : quite the reverse, 
and must explain that this remark is meant solely 
to apply to residents in a district, who can easily 
on any clay visit each other, after hours, or during 
slack time 5 and in no way does it apply to visitors 
from other and distant parts of the country, or passing 
travellers, all of whom are justly entitled to every 
courtesy and attention. Nothing used to be more 
common, especially in small districts, than squabbling 
amongst neighbours, although why this propensity 
should be more prevalent in small than in large dis- 
tricts is very odd : one would naturally suppose that 
in a small district your neighbours would be appre- 
ciated all the more, because they were few. The 
remedy for which is, bear and forbear with your 
neighbour in his moments of folly, knowing 
that surely your time will come too, when you will 
require his forbearance, which you will no doubt all 
the more readily receive, for having borne with him, 
and thus the moments of folly or too hasty irri- 
tation, instead of separating your friendship, will 
eventually tend all the more to cement it ; just on 
the same principle as the old saying, Nippon an 
skarten is Scotch courtin.” But even should you 
begin to think that your neighbour’s moments of 
folly” are likely to lengthen into hours and days, 
becoming too tiresome and frequent to put up with, 
what is the use of bickering and quarrelling, keeping 
that unhappy kitchen coolie continually on the 
road with letters, which serve no end at all, 
unless to make matters worse. Go and have a personal 
interview with your ruthless enemy, and, if you can’t 
come to a friendly understanding, just simply let 
each other alone, and have as little communication as 
possible. Unless a neighbour has been guilty of very 
ungentlemanly or blackguardly behaviour, it is a silly 
thing not speak to him 5 if you do not desire his 
fellowship, by all means withdraw from it. It will 
not in the least compromise your dignity, when you 
