[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."J Sin,—If you have
room for another letter on this subject, I should like to relate an incident which I think may take rank with that of the sympathetic plumber recorded by "E. S. S." A local publican called upon me not long ago, and delivered himself as follows :—" I should like to have a word with you about my son. He's getting a young man now, and Professor C—, the phrenologist, says there are only three things that he's really fit for,—an auctioneer, a commercial traveller, and a schoolmaster. Well, I don't think he's sharp enough for an auctioneer ; and he's a bit too wild to go round the country by himself as a commercial traveller ; so I'm thinking of making him a schoolmaster ; and if you happen to have a vacancy on your staff, I think we might come to terms."—I
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