Know Lerdre is Power

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 31, 28 February 1913, Page 4

Know Lerdre is Power

Some people have the knack of always doing and saying tinright tiling at the right moment. As ail instance <<f this, says Lord lin-smorc, in his “ Reminiscences, ” I remember a dog fight in Bond street, London, when two terriers belonging to two well-known ladies engaged in a regular bio* dthirsty tussle. The distracted ladies alternately made tearful appeals to their favourites and to the bystanders, but just as the tight seemed about to terminate in t lie sudden death of one of the animals a blase-looking individual of the typo known as a “chappie” elbowed his way through the crowd with a polite “ Allow me. ” He calm r l the tw , which by this time were locked in each other’s teeth; then he produced a handsome gold snuffbox, and taking a pinch from it ho dropped a little on the end of each dog’s nose. A fit of sneezing ensued, which compelled them to release their grip, and the combat terminated. With a polite bow t) the ladies, the strategist walked leisurely away, merely remarking with a lisp: “ Knowledge is power.”