"A malicious person! A bilious man!" his acquaintances began to say about the fool.—"But what a head!"
"And what a tongue!" added others.
"Oh, yes; he is talented!"
It ended in the publisher of a newspaper proposing to the fool that he should take charge of his critical department.
And the fool began to criticise everything and everybody, without making the slightest change in his methods, or in his exclamations.
Now he, who formerly shrieked against authorities, is an authority himself,—and the young men worship him and fear him.
But what are they to do, poor fellows? Although it is not proper—generally speaking—to worship … yet in this case, if one does not do it, he will find himself classed among the men who are behind the times!
There is a career for fools among cowards.
April, 1878.