Nor call your correspondent scamp;
For if you storm, he proves that you
Received his letter—with "a stamp!"
Reflect seriously upon the character of such a correspondent. The man whose letters are not pre-paid may be thus denounced:—
He is selfish, because he would rather you should pay twice, than that he should pay once.
He would rather inflict an injury on his friend, than act fairly himself.
He is disloyal, because he ought to grace his letter with the head of his Queen, and he declines doing so.
He prefers seeing his brother's two pockets picked, to having a hand thrust into one of his own.
He is an old fool, who wants to be thought young, and affects carelessness, because it is a youthful fault.
Rather than take a bottle of wine out of his own cellar, he would drink a couple at his neighbour's expense.