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North Otago Times, 2 December 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

"I have said," remarked the man who kept a acrap-book, "that a pound of spider's web la long chough to go round the world."

"Pooh," retorted the mean man; "what's that ? I've got a brother only Sve feet long who has been round the world three times."- -

What demoralised the masses in the later Roman Emplte was not luxury but living at other people's expense and not by their own exertions. They became the petted paupers of'the State and' not free and Independent citizens. Their actual luxu'rlejrjfrca bread, freo performances In the clr« cus, and free baths-were not very great, unices Idleness It considered a luxury,-"Spectator."