BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 954, 26 December 1933, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OF THE BOYS. “ Work at Waitaki is past the danger point.” News item. Ah! Turned the corner? “ Children at a wedding can always be relied upon to relieve any feeling of tension,” we read. Especially when they step off the bride’s train? School prizes should be regarded also as an encouragement, says a professor. But the scholars who need encouragement don’t get prizes. The railways are experiencing a very busy time. In fact the guards can only nip the tickets once to every ten times .ormerly. Landlady: “So Mr Xewboard has -ound something to complain ibout this morning.” Maid: “No, mum, it’s the eggs.” The Exasperated One: “I’m afraid, ir, this town isn't big enough to hold both of us! ” The Imperturbable: “ H’m! Why don’t you start a suburb? “ The children at a Sunday School were asked, among other questions, what bearing false witness against one’s neighbour meant. A pert little girl replied: “It is when nobody hain’t done nothing and somebody goes and tefts." A sailor who had been away on a I ~ng voyage received a letter at a port >1 call. Opening it, he took out a blank sheet of paper. Ilis pal remarked, “ Hey, Bill, wet's the bloomin’ idea n i the blank paper? ’ “ Blimey,” said Bill, “ that’s a letter from ’ome. Me and the missus ain’t a-speakin’.”