BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

SOME REFLECTIONS AND COLLECTIONS(By One of the Boys.) -Suppose instead of arguing about who-is responsible for letting the roads get into- the present riverbed -condition we try to decide whose job it is to put them in order. City Council, Drainage Board. Have at one another roared: You have spoilt the roads: No. you. To mend them, both should buckle to. When wit is in, whine is out. “A friend should bear his friends’ infirmities.”—Shapespeare, “Julius Caesar.” A man with many friends would have an unenviable time during an influenza epidemic. Pope wrote:—“At ev’ry word, a reputation 4 dies.” Had he been living at the present he might have written: “At ev’ry word a deputation lies.” In connection with the recent leniency shown to criminals, can it be that the law adopts "Pistol’? ” views when, in the “Merry Wives.” he says: “Convey, the wise it call. steal! foh! a fico for the phrase!” “They also serve who only stand and waite.” When Milton wrote these words he never anticipated that they would be adopted as a motto -'for shop assistants. 1 More than two thousand people make a living in France by fortune-telling. But nobody seems to fortell mlich that is satifactorv regarding the franc. Opium valued at £250 in an Indian's bags. Oxford bags, of course.About this whitebait curtailment. Where does the tail begin? An Aberdonian went to London, taking with him a one pound note and a clean shirt. - At the end of a week he had changed neither. The good die young. Why? Because it is the wicked that own th& motorThis anxiety to name tunnels and places after Coates is quite all right. The Coleridge tunnel was certainly a big bore, and I would call the/cliffs at Sumner, Coates Cliffs, for are they not a big bluff? Some newspaper headings arc apt to scare off more people than they attract. Take “Bookstall and VStudy,” This scares off the non-literary. person, and yet each week it contains some gem even for those ivho belief Keats invented insect powder. Thffc is in yesterday’s. Isn’t it delicious’.r— WILLIAM AND CONSTANCE, OR THE LAKE. Constance, though warned the Jce was thin. Defied her betters—and fell in* William, who viewed the scene with pain. Informed her that her cries were vain. “For,” said the boy, “I much regret, My feet I promised not to . wet.” And now the obedient child witji calm, His Kodak wields in either palm, And focusses, before the End, The head of his Departing friend. And. as he turns to join his £yurse. He points a M’oral. thus, in Verse:

“See Naughty Disobedience lead To icy Depths, where Fishes feed! While' Virtue soothes the Ul6\v Occasioned by Another's Woe"! A true lie—She left him without a word. - ‘ R