The Hypocrite.

Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 77

The Hypocrite.

—An Easter Holiday Dialogue.— j "I suppose." said the youth (reports Edwin Pugh in the London Leader) with a scornful mouth, "you're one o' tho^e people who don't believe in holidays? ' I "Wrong again'" exclaimed the redfaced man, with a tolerant smile. " I believe in 'em, same as I believe in dinner: but I don't, want to be eating all the time. Moreover, idling costs money.'' He paused to give hi-= last words due effect. "Money ain't everything, though," the youth poinced opt. ' | "Jest so. But even you'll admit it ain't easy to get. anyhow," said his mentor ; ! "and it's a sight harder still to keep. Not I that I blame you for thinking as you do,' 1 be went on. "I've been a young man myself, and I know how it feels." I "Perhaps I'm not as young as I look, y'know." remarked the other, resentfully. "Well, as to that I can't say,"' was the ropjy. "But you couldn't be younger than you talk." And the red-faced man sighed pensively as one weary with well-doing. —The Bad Old Times.— An iiitci \ al of comparative silence en- ,

for himself!"' cried the high-spirited gentleman, boisterously. "I thank Heaven," said the youth", piously, "that I'm not ev«rybodj. Because it I was I should ha\e to se that old hypocrite you've jest bin showing « up— among other people." Mr ICnowles gazed from one to the other; in considerable .perplexity. "Now lopk yon here,-. young feller melad," he said at .last, slowly, and with « portentous frown; ""this gentleman "as you're alludin' to is a particular old friend o' mine. And — — " "I'm deeply sorry for both of you," said the youth in the sponge-bag cap. j But just at this interesting juncture the train stopped, and the red-faced man, rising hastily, said — "Let's get out here and walk the rest o' the way, or we shall be , late — what?"