Poor old Maggie was ill and alone' and' excessively hard up. She had lost her cow oF something. Anyway, her neighbours decided to take up a collection for her; and to make the thing go, they got it up as a draw. One of the ticket-sellers called on an old' farmer in the neighbourhood.
"youve heard about poor ofd Int She's terribly hard up."
Weire selling tickets for her, for 2 "Aye "They're half-a-crown each." "Aye "You'll buy one, wont! your" No."
"Oh, come, just, one?™ No. No. T won't"
A game of test match cricket, Develops "never die"
The contents of a cartridge Teach little birds to My.
Some people train their muscles On energetic stut, Of lively "sakes and adders"
They've never had enough.
Elusive jig-saw puzzles ime of marbles that stomach pain, The biceps grows by climbing Rope ladders safely. hung, And feasted drives develop Big muscles on the tongue.
These games of clubs and roquets Of dots and balls and bags, Ate beaten to a frazsle By the game of selling "rage For keen exciting moments, Why not?"
"Well, what'd T do with Maggie it won her?
Leaver the others high and dry.
=A. Piececooss MAN lin such cases they will be satisfied "stay with them and not rebel against the monotony of their existence. In fact though there are many [temptations besetting the young men about town they are probably safer than many of their confreres who live in the country, and at any rate fare not so liable to fall a prey 10 the most deadly and vicious of evil habits, namely. the taking—of narcotics, the "least @angerous which i opium, One redeeming feature in the lite lof the modern young man is the interest that they are taking in sport, jand the large crowds that gather io [Shanghai and other places to watch Ca-Operation He' sat with his order book open A Codebook lay near-by, His notebook was bulging with ofers, Alb rotten, but he'd promised to try.
He put all his facts into figures, Included the phrase "best can do" He coded the stut tu ton leteere And chopped every word into to0.
He then joined each half to its brother, And checked all the offers he'd of, He reckoned the cost out in dollars, ud fore up the whole blooming ings, while those. of the earlier Esneritions know ite or nothing Sout them. We will' finish "bys Fefernce to thave "who fare own evolutions aguinst the tari chis ting ko ming" CORRE)
(castor) meaning those who insist {Sat they shall have area hand the selection of the jady they wish {oSrearey, and refuse for the fly Gecide Yor them, has been the [Ststom since. the very" Beginning. of {Sings in thie they wit neve. the cod wishes and sympathy of all the stand for" progress and reform, even though It may not always happen that their judgment is better than that of their family.
A kick from his conscience disturbed him, wasn't quite playing the game, He'd accepted free forms from the Company, Aid he ought to make use of the out the text of the age, Each five-tetter carefully read, He entered the NortheBartSouth-And to te poor cable clerk said:
This cable ie not very useful, The business seems Ropeless to me, Til pay for the offers accepted, The otters, yow'lh wire for A. Piececoos Man.
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