PRUDENT INVESTMENTS.
IT is a great blessing to have a cheerful confidence in the future. Two eminent French gentlemen who were great friends used to relate an amusing story of their impecunious days. Neither fame nor fortune had come to them, but they were always hopeful. The years had weighed heavily enough upon Jules, however, for him to have become entirely bald. One day Alphonse met him with a beaming countenance. and cried gaily : ‘What do you think, Jules ! I have been buying a strongbox!’ ‘Then, Alphonse,' replied Jules, firmly, ‘ I shall buv a hair-brush.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 127
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95PRUDENT INVESTMENTS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 127
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