Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Thoroughly Ungrateful. [ARTICLE]

Thoroughly Ungrateful.

Gleason White, the brilliant art critic, was sitting writing under the chestnuts in Ravenscourt Park when along came a British workman in corduroys and a clay pipe and plumped down along side of him. The intruder proceeded genially to give the writer valuable information about fighting dogs and the beer at adjoining pubs, to which White replied politely as long as possible. His patience exhausted, he continued his writing. After a while the fellow patted him on the shoulder. “You don’t seem as if you ’eard w’at I’m saying of.” “I’m not listening,” said White. The man got up. “Well, of all the ungrateful blokes as ever I came across, you take the bloomin cake! ’Ere I’ve been for the larst ’alf hour doing’ the best as is in me to cheer you up, and let you on to somethings as you may find useful in dogs, and you ’aven’t got the common gratitude to listen.”—San Fransico Wave.