BILLY’S PIG

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7979, 9 December 1911, Page 13

BILLY’S PIG

Billy to the market-place AVent off to buy a pie; He got a pink one—spotted black— It -wasn’t very big. He tied a rope to piggy's leg And started home with pride; But piggy scampered round a tree And there was Billy—tied! —“Youth’s Companion." WONDROUS WORD There’s a little word below with letters three. Which, if you will only grasp -ts potency, AVill send you higher Toward the goal where you aspire Which without its precious aid, you’ll never see —_ Now! ,\ r : ■ , Success attends the man who views it right; The back and forward meaning differ quite; ' For this is how it reads To the man of ready deeds Won! _ , —Evchange. WORK AND REST 0 brother toiler! when my Heart was dried 1 this grace—to smile, and stand aside. And lo! my work went forward in the dark As doth a meadone’ in the growing: tide. —Frederick Xangbridge. The hump on the hack of a dromedary is stearin© or hard fat, in fact, a store i of nourishment provided against the day of want to which the animal in a wild state is often exposed, and from which he is not entirely exempt in a state of domestication. The dromedary or camel j can exist for a long period, thanks to [ this hump, without any other food.