SELF-DEFENCE.
The following suggestive little dialogue appears in the ‘Home Companion.’ A touch of surprise tends to fix the attention, and so to assist the memory'.
‘Do you think it would be wrong for me to learn the noble art of selfdefence?’ a religiously inclined young man inquired of his pastor.
‘Certainly not,’ answered the minister. ‘I learned it in youth myself, and I have found it. of great value during my life.’ ‘lndeed, sir! Bid you learn the old English system or Sullivan’s system?’ ‘Neither. I learned Solomon’s system.’
‘Solomon’s system ?’ ‘Yes; you will find it laid down in the first verse of the fifteenth chapter of Proverbs: “A soft answer turneth away wrath.” It, is the best system of self-defence of which 1 have ever heard.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue V, 30 July 1898, Page 159
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128SELF-DEFENCE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue V, 30 July 1898, Page 159
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