THE MAN WITH THE SACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 17

THE MAN WITH THE SACK

WORKERS WANTED. ■ — *. Now the flowering apple trees Are advertising jobs for bees. Work for all—so read the signs, In pink and white the printed lines— A language understood by bees. Soon is heard the buzz and hum Of eager workers as they come In haste to gather and distil Sweets, a million jars to fill For wages fair, a goodly sum. I -TMash/Gordon '■* \ THINK IWICE AN EIGHT-LETTER WORD. My first is in foot but not in leg, My second is in washer, but not in peg; My third is in door, but not in stair, My fourth is in lion and also in lair. My fifth is in bun. but not in role; My sixth is in ash and also in coal, My seventh is in risk and also in dare; My last is in filly, but not in mare. A WORD DIAMOND. Here is a word diamond built around your tennis rackets. The second line is a utensil used in cooking, the third is steps in walking, the fifth is poor, and the sixth is a big pen. Now form the diamond. R A : ■ • c RACKETS T S RIDDLE-ME-REB. (Original.) My first is in mud but not in clay, JMy second is in old but not in grey, •My third is in night but not in day. My fourth is in height and also in hay, My fifth is in egg but not in ham, My sixth is in. ram but not in slam. ! My whole is a person we all love. "KILTIE." Hataitai, . LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS. Strange Thing.—A wig. Rlddle-me-ree. —Centennial.. Cling (clutch), line (fishing), lie (falsehood), gen (trap), whole word (ceiling). Picture Addition.—Fan-tail (bird), sawfly (in-' sect), crossbill (bird), earwig (insect), turtledote (bird), flaraing-o (bird).

There is an old legend which tells ' of an old man who was in the habit of travelling from place to place with a sack hanging behind his back and another in front of him. .. In the one behind him he tossed aIF~--1 the kind deeds of his friends, where- ; they were quite hidden from view,": and he soon forgot all about them. In the one hanging round his neck under his chin he put all the sins which th£ • people he knew committed, and these 7 jhe was in the habit of turning over' '. and looking at as he walked along. - One day to his surprise he met a -• man wearing, just like himself, a sack "' iin front and one behind. He went up s to him and began feeling his sack. I "What have you got here, my friend?*' he asked, giving the sack in front a---good poke. "- "Stop, don't do that," cried the other. "You'll spoil my good things." "What things?" asked the first man. "Why, my good deeds," answered the second one. "I keep what I call -. my mistakes in ihe other." "It seems to me that your sack of - mistakes is fuller than the other," said--the first one.. The other man frowned. He had.^ never thought that, though he: had put what he called his mistakes out of :~ sight, everyone could see them still. An angry reply was on his lips when, happily, a. third traveller —also carry- - ing two sacks, as they were—overtook them. The first two men at once pounced - on the stranger. '"What do you carry in your sack?" cried- one. "Let's see your goods," said thit other. "With all my heart," quoth the - stranger, "for I have a goodly assort--ment, and I like to show them. This sack," said he, pointing to the one "in " front of him, "is full of the good deeds ; of others." "Your sack looks nearly touching the ground, It must be a pretty heavy weight to carry," observed the first . man. "There you are mistaken," replied -. the stranger. "The weight is only ? such as sails are to a ship, or as wings - are to a bird. It helps me onwards." - - "Well, your sack behind can be of ' little good to you," said the second, "for it appears to be empty, and I see it has a great hole in the bottom of it." ' ' "I did that on purpose," said the stranger, "for all the evil I hear of people I put in there, and it fallsthrough and is lost. So you see, I haveno weight to drag me backwards." -