AN OMITTED CHAPTER.
"Plato," said Diogenes one dr.y, "hav«i you such a thing as a spanner ?" • " Yos," replied the philosopher, " I havel one with my bicycle kit." j "Just the thing," continued Diogenes.! "I would like to borrow it for a short! time."
After a while Plato said to himself
"I wonder what that old crank wanted to do with my spanner P I believe I'll hunt' him up and see." -. And presently Diogenes was found at the! back of the Temple of Cybele, working liko' a blacksmith.
"Here," exclaimed Plato, "what are yoa! trying to do ?" t " I'm putting a cyclometer on my tub,"| said Diogenes; and after that thai Athenians ceased to linger upon the crossings when they caw him ooming.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 4
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