BEHOLD! TWO BOYS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18447, 7 January 1922, Page 4

BEHOLD! TWO BOYS

Here is another parable by Safcd the Sage in the Boston Congrogatioftalist “ There were in a certain city two boys. And they both loved to fish. And there came a day when the spring was alluring, and they listened unto the Call pi the Wild. And they wont out of the city, and sat them down by a Certain Stream. And they essayed to fish. But one of these boys, before he went, took a Tomato Can and an Hoe, and went into the Back Yard, and dug until ho had a Dozen Worms and a Blister. But the other boy liked to fish and did not like to Dig Worms. And it carfco to pass at the ond of the day they returned homo both of them. But one of them had a string of fish and a Sunburnt Nose, and the other had only a Su. burnt Nose. “ And it came to pass that those two boys grew into Manhood. And one of them, before he began anv new enterprise, went into the Back Yard of the matter, and did a lot of hard digging. And the other just shouldered his polo and went into the affair, and watched his Cork placidly floating upon the Surface of the Stream, and never going under. And the history of one of these men was a Succession of Successes, and the other was a Series of Sheriff's Soles. Anri when I considered these matters, I said T.-ife is a Fish Pond, but it t more than that. It is also a Back Yard out of which Worms are to bo digged with much Arduous Toil: and. other tilings being equal, a man’s String of Fish is proportioned unto the Size of His Tin Can of Bait and the number of blisters in his hands that wore made by the Hoe Handle. For while the, Hoe Handle is less nloasant to ihe hand than the Fishing Pole, it is an Important. Element in the successful catching of Fish.”