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ODDS AND ENDS

' And what is this ?' asked. Aunt Clara, pointing to the picture of a chubby child in petticoats. • That,' said Rofoby, who had been" wearing "knickerbockers -for some time, 'is me when I was a girl.'

The origin of the terms ' sixpenny,' ' tenpenny,'" etc., "as applied to nails, though not commonly known, is involved in no mystery whatever. Nails have been made a certain, number of pounds to the thousand for many years, and are still reckoned in that way in England, a twentypenny weighing twenty pounds to the thousand ; and, in ordering, buyers call for the three-pound, six-pound, or ten-pound variety, etc., until, by the Englishmen's abbreviation of • pun ' for ' pound ' has Ween' made to stand for penny instead of pound, as originally intended.

' Papa, what is unswerving consistency ?' 'Unswerving consistency, my son, is another name for loyalty to our party.' ' But when it is the other side's unswerving consistency V s 'Then, my child, it is pig-headed and malignant obstinacy. ' b

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New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 38

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165

ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 38

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