TWO WRONGS, ONE RIGHT.
Mr N. resided for some years in one of the Fiji Islands, and came to have great influence with the natives, and especially with the chief. One morning a widow came to him in great trouble; during the night the chief had stolen her pfg. Would he try to get it back for her. She was quite sure the chief had stolen it. for she had seen it on his premises. Mr N. felt that a great wrong had been done, and he determined to rectify it, if Be could possibly do so, at once. Going to the chief and telling the poor woman's 6tory, Mr N. added, " If it is true, you have done a very shameful thing, and ought to send the pig back at once." f , . „ "But," exclaimed the chief, "somebody stole mine two nights ago !" "What of that?" replied Mr N. " Two wrongs don't make one'riglit." "Yes, they do," said the chief. " How do you make that out?" asked Mr N. "Why," f*i£ied the chief, "when mine was atokn I w«as wrong; I went and took that woman's — now I'm right." mmtmm __ __ _
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9323, 25 August 1908, Page 3
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