THE CUCUMBER IN THE BOTTLE

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1913, Page 62

THE CUCUMBER IN THE BOTTLE

/v' When I was a little boy,' remarked an old gentleman,^'somebody gave me a cucumber in a bottle. The neck of the bottle was small -and the cucumber so large that : it wasn't ; possible for it to pass through, and I was greatly puzzled to know how it got there. But out in the garden one day I came upon a bottle slipped over a little green fellow that was still on the vine, and then I understood it all. The cucumber had grown in the bottle. I often see men with habits that I wonder any strong, sensible man could form, and then I think that likely they grew into them when they were young and cannot slip out of them now. They are the cucumber. Look out for the bottle, my boys.'