POPULAR SAYINGS PLAYFULLY PUT.
* Good wine needs no bush.'— No, one only wants a corkscrew and a glass. 1 The loud laugh proclaims the vacant mind.'—Does it ? There must be a goodish number of empty heads, about, then. ' Short reckonings make long friends.' Can this be the reason why one's butcher is so attentive with his 'little account.' ' It is a wise child that knows his own father.' —Perhaps so; only it doesn't seem, quite clear why the child has to be wiser than the father. 'It is never too late to mend.' —This is a very popular but a very untrue saying. If you don't believe it just ask any jobbing bootmaker or tailor. ' The early bird catches the worm.'— Well, let him do so ; who on earth wants to go about catching worms ! c A contented mind is a perpetual feast.'—Here is another saying which, though not popular enough, is on the very face of it, quite wrong. For most people, however, contented may be their frame of mind, would strongly object to going without their dinner.
_ ' Never say die.'—Precisely ; the operationis unpleasant enough of itself withouttalking about it.—Judy.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3488, 11 September 1882, Page 4
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