EACH DEAR CREATURE BELIEVED ONLY IN HER OWN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXI, 23 November 1895, Page 664

EACH DEAR CREATURE BELIEVED ONLY IN HER OWN.

‘ I tell you what,’ eaid the girl in huckleberry blue, * you can never find a four leaved clover by looking for it, and if you did it wouldn’t be any good.' * Why not ?’ asked the girl who was groping in the clover patch. *lt wouldn’t bring you any luck. Now, I never look for one, but if 1 saw one—hello !' there’s one now.’ * 1 think it’s a shame :’ said the girl who had been groping, * I went all over that very spot, and never saw a sign of one. I’ll never hunt for one again !’ ‘That’s the way to find them,’ said Miss Huckleberry Blue, * with the luck in them.’ * I don’t believe in luck,’ remarked the Disappointed One serenely. * Oh, you don’t ! Then why wouldn’t you open your umbrella when it rained the other day, without going from under the roof ?’ * Oh, everybody knows it’s bad luck to put up an umbrella under a roof.' * Thank goodness !’ said the girl with freckles, * I haven’t any use for signs and superstitions. Ouch ! look there, girls, a great black s-pid e-r Don’t kill it for the world ! You know what the thyme says : “ He that would live and thrive. Must let a spider run alive.” ’ Then the dear non superstitious things gathered themselves up and scuttled off home.