"Try, Try Again."

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3757, 26 August 1882, Page 4 (Supplement)

"Try, Try Again."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again." This motto was the guiding principle of James' life. When James first essayed to smoke a cigaretto he turned deadly pale, and was very sick; hut he Was not the boy to weakly succumb to so trivial a thiug as a cigarette. He tried aeain and again, and though he was repeatedly quite ill in consequence of his bravery, hepersisted until ho could smoke any number of cigarettes with impunity. In time he conquered the legitimate cigar itself, and chews tobacco with all the grace and efficieny of man-of-war's man. Frederick also tried to smoke a cigarette. He lacked the persistency of James. He was fickle in the extreme. Be wished very much to smoke, but hardly had he puffed at a cigarette five minutes when he lost all interest in the diverson, and proceeded to dispossess himself of his dinner. Frederick not only failed wofully upon this initial attempt, bu the surrendered unconditionally to his internal remonstrances and gave up the battle forever. Japes has no end of amusement in rmfiSng his smoke in the faces of young ladies on the street, and. in decorating the sidewalks with fluid, tobacco ; while Frederick, besides losing all this ■Dleasure, is burdened with small change which might have been so profitably expended upon nicotine had he possessed the true manly courage Which distingushed James from himself.—"Boston Tran« script,"