MUCH TOO PERSONAL.
"No, I don't make off-hand and flippant remarks about strangers any more. It's dangerous. I used to, when I was younger and fresher, but you couldn't get me to express an opinion on a stray dog now." " I've been like that ever since once, a long time ago, when I was obliged to spend Sunday in a little town in which I was totally unknown. I happened to scrape- an acquaintance with a young native, however, and as a mild form of dissipation ho took ;ne up to Sunday school with him in the aiteriioon. "Everything went along smoothly until the closing hymn was beinjx sung, when I asked: ' Who is that soft-look-ing, putty-faced man standing by the organ . " 1 That,' said my companion calmly—■' that is my brother.' "The cold-chills chased themselves all over me,, but I thought that I was smooth enough to got out of it all right, ,so I said : " 'Oh, no. I didn't mean, that one. T meant that other old Hip Van A\ inkle with the billy-goat whiskers, at the other end of the organ.' ■'
"•'That,' he said, wit!) a. ghastly smile —'that—is my father!' "
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11026, 14 March 1914, Page 1
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194MUCH TOO PERSONAL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11026, 14 March 1914, Page 1
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