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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1928, Page 3

TIIK RATXBOW. “Spoilt ton minutes in watching—’M id tlie ilcop umbrage of a green bill’s side, tne birth. growth, and death ol a rainbow. Springing from the fir-trees behind the church, it over-arched the garden where our departed parishioners rest, and seemed to fix its pedestal of ruby and emerald on the opposite eornfieid. The ploughman, is just creeping from under the dripping hedge, and returns to his toil through a gate of glory. A company of Angels might have shaken their wings over the leaves, sparkling with so many colours. And now the lighted column dissolves in rain of purple and amethyst. The field, under the gilded rim of the distant horizon, is sown with precious stones, broken up into dust. for the dying rainbow has melted away on the ground. 1 never saw anything so wonderful —of Nature and yet above her.”—From “ A Journal of Summer Time in the Country,” by R. A. A\ il 1mott. WISDOM IN PROVERBS. “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.” (Chinese. > “ Palings weren’t fixed for climbing over.” (West Ininn Negro.) “The sad man rose to enjoy himselt but found no room.” ’Egyptian.) “Live in my heart and pay no rent. (Irish.) “In the ant’s house dew is a deluge.” (Persian.) “The man who confesses his ignorance shows it once; the man who tries to conceal it shows it many times.’ (Japanese.) . . “A book is like a garden carried m the pocket.” (Arabian.) “ Tin plate don’t mind dropping on the floor.” (American Negro.) “ As long as a man builds lie lives. (Turkish.) “Some smart folks can’t tell a rotten rail without sitting on it.” ()\est Indian Negro.) From “ Collected Proverbs, by Dr. Gurney Champion.