HELP ONE ANOTHER.

Northern Advocate, 30 June 1888, Page 3

HELP ONE ANOTHER.

" Help one another," the snowflakes said, As they cuddled dowu in their fleec7 bed ; " One of us here would not be left, One of us here would quickly melt : But I'll help you and you help me, And then what a big white drift we'll see ! " " Help one another," the maple spray Said to its fellow leaves one day ; " The sun would wither me here alone, Long enough ere the day is gone ; But I'll help you and you help me, And what a splendid shade there'll be ! " " Help one another," the devvdrop cried, Seeing another drop close to its side ; "Thia warm south breez6 would drive me away, And I should be gone ere noon to-day ; And I'llhelp you and you help lne, And we'll make a brook and run to the sea." "Help one another," a grain of sand Said to another grain just at hand ; " The wind may carry me over the sea, And then O, what will become of me ? But come my brother, give me your hand, We'll build a mountain and there we'll stand,' Chambers' Journal. Mr W.H. Paling, the head of a great music business at Sydney has presented to the people of New South Wales as a centennial gift a model farm at Camden valued at £25,000, and jB 10,000 in each, with which to endow it as a hospital for convalescents and incurables, altogether 507 acres. Sound travels a good deal faster in calling a hired man or boy to dinner than it does in the morning up a pair of stairs.