FAME DEFINED.
'Mr Speaker,' exclaimed a member of the New South Wales Parliament, 'my colleague taunts me with a desire for fame. I scorn the imputation, sir. Fame, sir! What is fame? It is a shaved pig with a greased tail, which slips through the hands of thousands, and then is accidentally caught by some lucky fellow who happens to hold on to it. 1 let the greasytailed quadruped go by me without an effort to clutch it, sir.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 304, 24 December 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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