MY NEIGHBOUR.
♦ (By WALT MASON.) I love my neighbour as myself, and wish him p9ace and pie and pelf. Yet human nature's strong in me, and wheI look across and see my neighbour rending clothes and hair, and sorer than a poisoned' bear, because hard luck has swatted him a grievous jolt right in the glim, I do not feel one-half as bad as if that luck myself I had. In fact—it's painful to relate —I rather like to contemplate my neighbour when he's in despair, and biting chunks out of the air. But when he toddles to my place, I pull a sympathetic face, and tell him how my bosom bleeds, and send him homeward with a smile; you see, my heart is full of guile. It's a common, garden heart, responding more to private smart, than to the painful stings and pricks whioh may afflict the other hicks. My trifling boil will gall me more than big carbuncles three or four which may adorn my neighbour's neck, and make his life a gruesome wreck. It is a sad thing to confess; and yet we're much .alike, I guess.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11686, 1 May 1916, Page 4
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190MY NEIGHBOUR. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11686, 1 May 1916, Page 4
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