Reason for Jubilation.
He was an arJent student of Nature and her ways, and the other day, upon dropping into the barber's for his customary shave, he found that although it was bleak and dismal without, it was different within, while the barber* canary was giving voice to as sweet a tune M ever bright skies drew from birdland. 11 Nice bird that ! " he remarked. •«'E's a champyun ! " replied the barber. " One thiDg I notice abaut caged birds 18, went on the student, as he sat down in the wrong chair, "that a good many of them do not seem to mind their captivity, and sing a 8 sweetly as if they were free." "Thorn's the philosophers !" retorted the artist, with an extra flourish of the razor. " That bird there is a philosopher: 'c ainM; got to go out in the world an' find 'is own hvin ; an' bein' thankful that it is io, 'c rejoices according." _
— All the world's a stage, and most of 08 want to collect the farefc
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Otago Witness, Issue 2252, 29 April 1897, Page 52
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171Reason for Jubilation. Otago Witness, Issue 2252, 29 April 1897, Page 52
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