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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3125, 4 May 1915, Page 7

A learned judge was recommended by a poetic friend to read Shelley. Hie great man o 1 the law said he tapposed he ought to read a little poetry, and, having heard so much Shelley, he would try him. "'And what do you fhink of it? ' said his friend to the judge, after he had waded through a few pages of "Epipsychidion." "Isn't it beautiful'i'' "Well, well —oh, yes, 1 dare say it is!" replied the judge, "but what 1 want to know is—when are we going to get at the facts ?" Here is a startling story of equine sagacity. A horse wat' standing in the shafts ot a carriage just outside a local theatre. It had a weary look, as of one that desired repose. Suddenly it brightened up, and before it could I>e stepped it mad a dash for the box-offiwe. The reasons for.this unexpected behaviour gave rise to much discussion, till at last one of the crowd, more observant than the others, pointed out that the legend, "To the stalls," was written in Targe letters over the boxoffice window. "Don't you want to go to the better world. Tommy ?" asked a London Sun-day-school teacher </' the new scholar. "No. mum," promptly replied the frank little fellow. "And why not, Tommy?" "Oh, when I die I want to go wkere a fellow can rest." "Well, mv boy, you can rest there. " Bat in the song we sang it said we'd all shine there. 1 get enough of that here—l'm a shoeblack, mum." —"And the voltaic current," continued the lecturer, "wis the discovery of Volta, and its' development is a comparatively recent achievement of science." A small individual hoisted himself to a chair in the rear of the hall. "Hold on thero. Professor! What about the earlier discoveries of Noah ?" "I don't understand you, sir." "Didn't Noah mnko the ark light on Mount Ararat?" What doc* an artist like to drAw best? His salary-