. Newfoundland Quarterly 1919-20. ee eye to eye with him. He could damn with faint praise,and without sneering himself, teach others to sneer. He sawround him daily the follies and artificiality of men, and noneunderstood them better than he. With Byron he could say -Is are my theme, let satire be my satire was like the keen edge of a sharpened razor,wounding yet scarcely felt or seen. This weapon he did notuse indiscriminately, nor did he run amuck with it, dealingblows to all he met, but only where deserved. He could notresist getting after those posing for the genuine article, and
. Newfoundland Quarterly 1919-20. ee eye to eye with him. He could damn with faint praise,and without sneering himself, teach others to sneer. He sawround him daily the follies and artificiality of men, and noneunderstood them better than he. With Byron he could say -Is are my theme, let satire be my satire was like the keen edge of a sharpened razor,wounding yet scarcely felt or seen. This weapon he did notuse indiscriminately, nor did he run amuck with it, dealingblows to all he met, but only where deserved. He could notresist getting after those posing for the genuine article, and whowere in reality only the imitation. He hated to see real meritnot succeeding when those whose stock in trade was gall, selfesteem, push and self advertisement, trading on the prejudicesof the community, advancing by leaps and bounds up the socialand political ladder merely from association with the organisedfollies of others. He himself had no push ; he wanted to liveand succeed, but not at the expense of others. He had no use. for titles or distinctions, especially those which measure in noway real merit or real value, but are due to political pull andthe means to subscribe to the party fund. It offended himbeyond measure to notice the interest taken by some in ritualand regalia, which he regarded, when carried to extremes, as amild form of mania. in 1879 I was editing a small daily paper, the MorningHerald, to which Boone contributed many a humurous article,a few of which I have still in an old scrapbook. From this Itake some lines he wrote on the retirement of Chief JusticeHoyles from the Bench in 1879, entitled An HystericalDirge It will be seen it is a clever imitaiion of Tennysons In Me-m >riam localised, was a tribute to his friend theChief Jus-ice, and a hit at others. Hoyles had a great admiration for Boone. and was an old friend of his fathers,baptism had given him the name of referred to in the poem, was where Hoyles lived, andthe buying of the har
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