The Youth of Today. They’re always to blame. If only there’d been a notice to request they didn’t climb on the stone.
On visiting Llandudno about a year ago, after ten years’ absence, I was disgusted to find that the rocking-stone, which I often moved with one finger*, had been thrown off its balance, of course by some of the fast young “gents,” many of whom I saw exhibiting their graces on the Esplanade. It is no credit to the “Llandudno Improvement Company ” that such a wanton piece of mischief should have occurred, or, having occurred, that means were not taken to replace the stone, as in the case of the famous Cornish Logan.
CYWBH.
Taken from a letter to Notes and Queries, December 18, 1869.
*It was all right for him to touch it of course, because he was doing it in a careful and appreciative way. Ah how the discussion continues 130 years+ down the line...