THINKING AND SPEAKING.
(By Walt: Mason.) I think a lot of things each day, but what they are 1 will not say. His thinking seldom gets a soul in any sort of awkward hole, if he has sense enough to keep his dark reflections buried deep. I think old Kickshaw is a. bore, and when he talks he makes me sore, but when I meet him on the street, my manner’s mild, my smile is sweet. I listen to his blooming rot, pretending that it hits (he spot. And so tdd Kickshaw swears by me, and lie would take his snickersnee and carve traducers if they tried to tan a sample of my hide. Ido not say the things I think, if they would make some neighbour shrink, and so I get along in peace, and have no use for the police. The man who always “speaks right out” such thoughts as he may have about, must walk nine miles to find a friend, and he is lonely to the end. And often-times, to crown his woes, he has a dislocated nose, and wears a beefsteak on his eyes until the inflammation die # s.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1556, 27 May 1916, Page 4
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194THINKING AND SPEAKING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1556, 27 May 1916, Page 4
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