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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 7 May 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

NOT ENCOTTtAGING. Mr. Taft, ex-President of the -United States, is a gifted writer, and at one time tie had a high reputation as n poet. On one occasion, however, when ho was a very young man, he received a nasty .shock from an esteemed relative of his. This was an aunt who lived in the country, and the future President went to dine with lior one Sunday evening. Proudly he carried with him some cuttings from a newspaper —nothing less, in fact, than his own published verses. After the meal he took them excitingly from his pocket and gave them to his aunt to read. Adjusting her spectacles, she went through them carefully, while her poetical nephew watched-her anxiously. Presently she put down the cuttings and glanced over her spectacles at the poet. "William,” she .asked, an.noce.ntly, "do they print those things ‘for nothing’ if you send them in?” First Neighbour (threateningly) : “ Did you call me a two-faced thing, did you ?” Second _ Neighbour (unabashed) : “Yes, I did; and, wot’s more, I don’t know which on ’em’s the ugliest.” Tt was never a happy day for Sammy’s painstaking father when his young hopeful’s school report arrived. ■ As for Sammy himself—well, he was a philosopher. The awful day had come once more, and father was in the lowest depths of misery. “Sammy Sammy,” he groaned, “why is it that yon are at the bottom of your class again?” “What does it matter, father, whether T am-at the top or the bottom?” oueried that wise youth. “They teach the same at both ends, you know!”