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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3940, 25 March 1930, Page 2

However strong a. man’s resolution may bo, it costs him something to carry it out, now and then. We may determine not to gather any cherries, and keep our hands steadily in our pockets; but we can’t prevent our mouths from watering.—George Eliot. Little Tommy had been sent to try to borrow a gardening fork from the next-door neighbour. “ Dad said will you lend him your fork,” he asked very impolitely. 11 But haven’t you forgotten something?” reproved Jones, who was rather strict on bad manners. Tommy looked puzzled for a while, until' suddenly he remembered. “Oil, yes!” ho repled. “Dad said if the old miser refused, try Mr Robinson next door.”