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THE KEY WORD.

Key words impart as ".veil as reveal character. As a generic term, the key word.£pvers.all ? those nimble and potent phrases and smooth shibboleths : which unlock hearts, win advantages, move mobs of violence* and send babes to sleep.

You have, the philosophy of it in a story, .first told by: of a .certain missionary' who was wont to regale his converts with cider. An old man, who had no pretentions to be a Christian, desired to be admitted to the refreshment,: and proposed to some of his converted friends that he should accompany them on their next visit to the missionary. They told him he must be a Christian first.

"What was that ?" He must know all about the Bible. When the time came, the.* oh? man presented '■ himself among the rest, and., missionary; wrapped -irf his' blanket, uttered the words—"Adam! Eve, Cain, Noah, Beelzebub, Solomon." "What do you mean )" asked the missionary. "Solomon, Beelzebdb, Noah-—-" "Stop, stop- 'What do. you mean?" The old man said " Cider."—From "Biographical Words" in "T.P.'s Weekly."

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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7

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THE KEY WORD. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7

THE KEY WORD. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7

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