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New Zealand Graphic, 6 April 1907, Page 23

There is no knoning what n (ramp has had in (he way of education. Many a. pitiable-looking object in rags and tatters, equipped with a splendid proles- . sional whining voice, ami accomplished in the art of shivering, "eomineneed with a good education. So it was with Dreary Daniel, who called one day at a prim old lady’s house to beg a few coppers and a dry crust the dryer the better, lie did not look an imposing object. The rags be wore were sodden we-t, and there was not >mi< l> of his hat left excepl the brim. “My good man,” said the old lady, “why don’t you go to work, ami give up begging? Don't you know that a rolling stone gathers no moss?” “Madam,” replied Dreary Daniel in his old "free education” tone, -'without, evading your question, or wishing.to presume, may I ask what practical utility moss would he to a man in my posi tion?”