BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

•OME REFLECTIONS AND COLLECTION (By One of the Boys). Good old Maunganui. She had to carrv a load of twenty-two Indians to New Zealand,, but at least she_ showed her annoyance off the Three Kings by impaling a huge black-fish on her stein. a st pi , A hen-pecked little Christchurch man was about to undergo an examination for life insurance. “You don’t dissipate, do you?” asked the doctor. “Not a fast liver, are you?” The man hesitated, looked a bit scared for a moment, and then replied. “Well, I sometimes chew a little gum” K K « „ . , If this one isn’t true of Gipsy Smith it ought to be. “Unless you repent,” said the preacher, “what will there be for you in the hereafter? Nothing but weeping and gnashing of teeth.” “Gnashing of teeth don't worry me,” said a sinner, “I ain't got any.” “They’ll be provided,” was the swift reply. “Busy little place, Kaiapoi,” said the railway passenger to a friend, as the train stopped at the station yesterday “What do you think of it?” “I can't see it,” said the unfeeling friend, a North Island visitor, “there's a cow standing in front of it.” PI Pi sc An English manufacturer returning after a trip to New Zealand was asked how he got on with New Zealand business men. “Oh I didn’t meet any of them,” he said. “My business has all been with the heads of Government departments.” Pi p* Pi So Maviefs one fault* was her youth. She’ll grow out of it. * Pi Pi Gipsy Smith is appropriately named He gives £>’PMissions are always popular. It is nice to sit and listen to the other fellow getting sorted up. st ps p: Two thousand converts on Monday* and more every day. I'm expecting by Friday to get three, at least, of my umbrellas back. The London* “Tailor* and Cutter” states that the well-dressed man has a Suit for every day in the week. —So have we, but it is getting a bit worn. Pi Pi Pi Have you heard the story of the nine wounded soldiers who wouldn't drink water t . Have you ever heard of soldiers that would ? it p; The King is now described as the sole ph)’sical bond of the Empire. He may be a moral or spiritual bond, but to be a physical bond he would have to hold us by our Coates tails. Pi « # General Smuts is a happy man. He is pleased with what h*s been done, he is pleased with what has not been done, he is pleased that General Hertzog is pleased and he is pleased that the people of South Africa are pleased. Next, please! Pi st pi Mr Coates is described as a “ quiet and persistent helper ” by English papers. They can't have seen those full-page Advertisements in some of our papers. pz st Literary forgeries recall the lines of Sir J. Harington, Written three hundred years ago:— Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason r For if it prosper none dare call it treason. If an anonymous book is a success, nobody asks too closely about its authenticity -it becomes a best seller.