OUR WEEKLY MOTTO.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 2

OUR WEEKLY MOTTO.

A true saying and happy thought for I lie week wins Iho weekly prize of 2/(1 for .lean Barclay, 2, William Street, Mount Kden. Extracts from die motto competition will appear elsewhere on this page.

Real happiness Is found by passing a little Happiness around.

saved them if destiny had not always hung upon things valueless. Who could believe that an armful of hay would save nine lives? Yet such things come to pass.

Lilian awoke. She had never accustoincd herself to a mattress of hay, and such mattresses are sadly perverse. They will not lie still, but delight to make and uncomfortable, thereby provoking even temperate people to extremes. If thou art desirous of revenge, make thine enemy sleep on a. hay mattress. Lilian could not make friends with her mattress, so she donned a coat and went out on to the beach.

Unconsciously she looked up at the cliff-top, and, aware of what she saw, she gasped. With sudden thought for her sleeping companions, she began to scream. From the tent came ° eight figures, who raced to her side, questioning, and without a word she pointed to the cliff. On its summit n huge piece of rock had been loosened by the gunfire, and was slipping from its place. Five long minutes later it fell, burying the tent beneath it. •

Quietness came once more. Above the earth night meditated in the starry darkness, and through her legion of shadows answered the slumber song of the sea with a "Hush!" of eloquent sileu™.