Not to venture further opinions on H. C. L., we must put in a word, in answer to the lady who wrote yesterday, for the Chinese boy. She says he squeezes outrageously, pilfers unblushingly and, on any attempt at supervision, departs unceremoniously. Now let it be admitted that there are boys and boys and it appears to be a fact that good ones are less easily got than they used to be. But (with no offence or back thrust at our correspondent) boys appear to be very much what their employers make them, and, in the main, they are too readily accused, not readily enough credited. From what servant of other nationality will one get such ready and cheerful service? Night after night the boy sits up till all hours to serve his master's guests, yet is up with the lark to bring tea before his master's early ride. Certainly he expects to make a bit of commission—is that wholly unknown in Europe and America? But he is a just creature and, by tacit understanding, it, is easy to limit him to what master can afford, As for pilfering, an experience of 13 years suggests that the less things are locked up, the less they vanish. Some of his ideas are no doubt not ours, are perhaps a little maddening. Whose are not? And how many can compensate with the great virtues that the Chinese boy displays?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.