HAD SAMUEL PEPYS KNOWN HE WOULD HAVE WRITTEN

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 9

HAD SAMUEL PEPYS KNOWN HE WOULD HAVE WRITTEN

"To-day— Did bound from' my bed ere 7 a.m. feeling mightily flt. v « : As becomes a wise man, I repaired to mine own bathroom, filled a flagon to its half with crystal water and m it dropped Stevens' Health Salt to a spoonful's measure. Then did I quaff the elegant potion whilst it yet bubbled, and I knew a great peace with the world. Thinking to shame Mrs. Pepys for her laggardly ways, I took me to mine chopping block to hew a cord of Wood before. I brake my fast. Yet ere I had smitten. two armfuls, my good dame, with the roses .on her cheek of twenty years sinee — thus is Time's flight — did call me to a princely repast. Methinks. her goodly temper of late has much to do with the untoward sinking of the level m my bottle of Stevens' Health Salt. Yet I chideth her not. For he that grudgeth a paltry half-crown to his grocer or chemist for a montn of domestic bliss Is indeed beyond comprehension."* — 4