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Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 11

Some anecdotes of famous men as children wore related in a lecture in London recently by Dr. V. B. Ballard. Thomas Macauley, as a email boy, had kept a garden neatly bordered with oyster sheik. One day Sally, the maid, had swept all the shells away, and on discovering this Thomas rushed into his mother's drawing room, where she was ' holding a tea-part}-, and cried out: Cursed be Sally, for cur?ed is he who removeth his neighbour's landmark. Sir Walter Scott, on visiting his old school, said the speaker, presented a boy wearing a dunce's cap with half a crown —"Because _. ou are occupying- mv seat at the bottom of the class, and wearin" the cap I always used to wear." It"s astonishing tr.e money you save by furnishing at Walker's Big Mart in Queen Street. Ask the returned soldiers!