11:111 'HABITS OF THE TRIPPER.
(TO THE EDITOR OF TI1E " SPECTATOR:1
SIR,—Some years ago you inserted a' letter from me on the habits of the tripper. One of his worst offences is scattering filthy paper and smashing bottles. He goes everywhere now ; on the Quantocks there are notices imploring him not to lame cattle and horses with broken glass ; and I had to remove a quantity of it last week from the turf round Tennysen's monu- ment at Freshwater before it was safe to sit down. In Ash- down Forest not long ago I saw some people eating their dinner and amusing themselves by letting bits of the paper in which they had wrapped it fly across the Forest till they were stopped by the gorse in flower. The tripper probably does not see the 4pectator, and it is useless, therefore, to appeal to him tbrongb its columns. The holidays are beginning. May I suggest that those of your readers who, like myself, are forced to go where others go, should, as often as they can, piously pick up the glass and paper (the latter with a stick) and put them at the bottom of the nearest ditch or hedge ? The glass becomes covered with earth, and paper will rot and disappear in the -winter when it is stuffed in the ground. If we cannot mend our neighbours' ways, we can help to obliterate the trace of them.—I am, Sir, &c., W. HALE WHITE.
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