The Reason Why.
"Tommy J——," of Burkes Paso, sends ua his contribution, as follows : — *' Why is a Waterbury watch like a large stipend ? " " Because it keeps accurate (a curate) goin^f for a long time." N.B.— Some curates, also some "Waterburys, are exceptions. Now, Mr J , if your Waterbury is an exception to accurate going, you have been imposed on by Borne trashy imitation ; or if you have a genuine Waterbury, and it does not keep accurate time, you will probably find, oa enquiry round the neighbourhood, that it has either been employed to stop an avalanche or snowed in for a year or two, or put to some use not originally contemplated by tne makers. Waterburya which have been boiled with old waistcoats a!; the annual " wash up," or filled up with porridg9 or pea soup by enterprising two-year-olds, ar6 not thereafter guaranteed to go. Others, whose mainsprings have been abstracted to repair wire fences, are I occasionally troublesome, and those which are never wound np have been known to strike work altogether. The genuine Waterbury i 3 above reproach. Sorry we cannot Bay as much for the curate, but this is probably due to the example set in the Synod. ______________
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7339, 20 July 1892, Page 1
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201The Reason Why. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7339, 20 July 1892, Page 1
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