“THE PRODIGAL SON.”

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 11

“THE PRODIGAL SON.”

“POINTS” FROM HALL CAINE’S NEW NOVEL.

The main road is easiest to travel. Scandal seldom loses its way in the dark.

The child grows, but its clothes don’t. Whom the gods love die young, but that is only because they never grow old.

Nobody is anybody’s brother in a game. Better a sour truth than a sweet lie. Many a man sharpens his axe who never uses it.

Everybody has liis own wounds to bandage. As sure to be in his place as a millhorse on the tread.

Ajll days don’t come on the same date.

It’s bad to let the sledge go ahead of the horse.

Nobody knows what is inside another’® coat.

When a woman marries she siaokens off, but when a man marries he tighten® up.

A cow seldom kicks when you are carrying her clover. Everything is hay in hard weather. No use beating a dog with a cheese when a whip is handy. No well is so deep that it cannot be emptied. An eagle isn't displeased with a dead sheep. Many a good sword is in a bad sheath. A low seat is often easy.

People who are naked needn’t go about mending other people’s clothes. An ugly sheep is better than no mutton.

Sweet is the bliss that follows bale.

Seldom does the servant maid starve in the larder.

Sin comes with a laugh, but goes with a cry. The mouse knows where to come back for his cheese. It is easier to count twelve mountains than to climb one.

It isn’t easy to hobble a homesick pony. (Of a good story teller.) Every time he pulled the trigger his pistol fired. It isn’t a good well if water has to be earned to it. Too vain to be proud. One sword draws another from ita sheath.

God has always a use for little angels. They oould hardly see the sun for her. Many things befall the man whose day is done.

You learn a lot when your servants quarrel.

Death makes those who hate us hato us less and those who love us love us more.

He has his bare feet on the hot ground of a geyser. (Said of one in trouble.) The poor wretch who comes after % prodigal gleans in a barren field.