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North Otago Times, 2 December 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

Nature's methods are slow and far from economical; the gardener's business is to react the same end by a shorter route,-H, 0, Davidson,

People who spend their time doing good work at such places as ragged schools are the people who hold society together.—Bishop Welldon, •

"What is woman ?" asked a speaker at a public meeting. "Woman," replied a man in the audience—a married man—"is an animate being, with the power of speech abnormally developed, and entirely surrounded by a dress that buttons up the back."

"Patsy, me boy," said Farmer O'Reilly sternly, "where's the donkey and cart?" ' .

"She's been at. her thrlcks again," Patsy said; "and' about half-way home sho stood still as a prison wall, and rayfused to bqdge an Inch. 1 "Well, what did ye.dp/?" ' "Lit a Are under her,"

"Ah, well, 'twas, the pnly way. 'Tie.an obstinate baste, she.ls," "Aye, and an artful. .For,what; she did was to.move on a ; couple of steps and then Btop'agaln, and.niyer budge till the cart was ; burnt up^An she's there vet, laughln' at, thejoke, hegorral'f