WANTED WISDOM.
Immediately the office optimiid saw lii.s neighbour Porks, who had just rushed. into hits house he knew he was in trouble. ■‘.My friend," lie raid, ‘‘'you are in ,-o;ue distress, and ——” •• Tli.it-« right," said Porks. “I ’’ ■‘Hut let mo urge you, my friend," continued the 0. 0., "to face your trouble —-examine it, and I will warrant that it ’will crumble away." “I want ” “Yes; you want comfort and -advice in this your hour of need. Hut do not despair, friend Porks. -Look cn the bright si do. and— —” “Oh, .shut up!” snapped Porks. “I ve been ‘looking on the bright .side of my lien so for the past twenty minute*, and it doesn't give mo any comfort. It's on fire. I want to use‘your telephone to mrry up that blithering fire-brigade!”
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)
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134WANTED WISDOM. Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)
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