A Dreary Outlook

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1915, Page 2

A Dreary Outlook

♦ ■■■ - A good lecturer, like a good singer, knows at once whether or not ho i 6 "in tune" with his audience. And tho professor was a very line lecturer indeed. Instinctively he felt that his address on "The Dignity of La-bor" had not gripped tho class in the way it should have done. His suspicions were continued when, on looking round tho gathering of .students, he beheld Percy Fitawhistle in a semi-somnolent statu at the back of the lecture-room. Tho professor coughed. "Mr. Fitzwhistle," he said, "well you kindly give me a definition of work?" The blue-blooded one stretched Ins legs, and yawned. "Workf"' he murmiM'ed. "Everything is work." ''Nonsense, Mr Fitsivliistlu!" said the professor, angrily. "You should choose your words with more caro! According to that definilion. the very chair upon ■which 1 am seated is work!" "So it is, sir!" drawled the aristocrat, settling hiniseli once more. "Woodwork!"