THE " SPECTATOR " OR ANOTHER [To the Editor of
the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Owing to the kindness of a friend-I am now receiving my Spectator regularly, as he has paid a year's subscription for me. Latterly I had been seeing it somewhat irregularly. There is an itinerant old lady who brings me the morning and evening paper here, and I gave her the order for the Spectator and a couple of other weekly papers that I get. Well, she's a decent, hard-working, elderly woman ; and she didn't seem able to grasp the difference between one paper and another !
She knew I was due to get a morning paper, and she brought either of the two leading dailies, as chance guided. She substituted Amateur Wireless for The Amateur Photographer three times out of four, as they both reached here on the same day ; and the Spectator was peculiarly unlucky as it came out on Saturday (here) when a number of other weeklies were due.
So I never knew whether I was going to get the Spectator, the Saturday Review, the New Statesman, the Nation, or whatever else may have occurred to her. Of course, at first I remonstrated, but she was so frightfully upset each time, and went away to get me the right paper, sometimes in torrents of rain, that I gave it up and accepted whatever Fortune sent me. So I shall be very glad and grateful for the chance of seeing it regularly, and I can easily pass it on
where it will be appreciated.—I am, Sir, &c., BELFAST.
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