Southey tells us that in his walk one stormy day he Tel an old woman to whom, by wav cf greeting, lie made dreadful weather. She answerca philo sophicaily thai in her opiuion “ air weather was be iter .ban none.” J should be hall inclined to that anreading was better than none, allaying the crudeness of the statement by the Yankee proverb which tells us that "though all deacons are good, there's odds in deacons.’— James Rushed Lowell.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 2
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