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Show Csrlyle's Sarcasm, Cnrtytn once wroto to a neighbor of his in Ijondon' "We bavo the misfortune misfor-tune to bo peoplo of weak health In this bouse, bnd sleepers In particular, particu-lar, and exceedingly sonslblo In tho night hours to disturbances from sound. On your premises far somo tlmo past thera Is a cock, by no means particularly loud or discordant, whose crowing would of course bo Indifferent In-different or Insignificant to persons ot sound health and nertes; but, nlas, It often enough keeps us unwillingly nwnko here, and on tho wholo gives a degree of aiino)anoe which, except to tho unhealthy, la not easily conceivable conceiv-able If you would have the goodnees to remove that small animal or In any way render him Inaudlblo from midnight mid-night to breakfast tlmo suoh clmrlty would work a nntablo relief to certain persons here and be thankfully acknowledged ac-knowledged by them -as an act of good neighborship.' |