AN OLD FRIEND.
Bismarck was at one time fond of tellino- a simple story—it is probably an .old friend to most people now-of how he enjoyed a cigar which he did n°^*Sue of a good cigar/ he saicL 'is best understood when it is the last you posses, and there « no chance of getting another. At KonioiraS I had only one cigar left in mv pocket, which I carefully guarddS the-Avhole.of the battle as a miser "guards his treasure I did not feel.jUßtified.in usmgit. I pamt. Pd in-"lowing.colours in my mind tne SSaEI for Smething to refresh him I felt in my pockets and found that I L f deHonly |hl which would be^of^o S&Se^^^l^ted * ated iSr YouSould __£»£& Toor C dSw's^grateful smile. I never SSjoyed a cigar so much as that one which I did not smoke.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 177, 29 July 1898, Page 5
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137AN OLD FRIEND. Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 177, 29 July 1898, Page 5
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