SAW THE POINT AT LAST
A tramp stopped at the kitehen door of the tarmhouso. and asked for something to eat.
“if you’ll go out in the woodshed,” tlie farmer's wife told him, “and split up the logs you find there, i’ll give you a good ideal.”
In a surpi isingly short time the tramp returned; Imt an inspection of tin* woodshed hy the good wife showed all the logs carefully split, except one gnarlolly knotty did stump. AVell satisfied, she spread a generous meal before him.-and as he ate, she said: “1 do wish you’d tell me how you split those logs so quickly and so easily.”
“Why, madam,e 1 simply stood beside them and told them funny stories, and they split themselves.” In the middle of the night, there was a great commotion in the woodshed, and on rushing in to investigate, the amazing discovery was made that the gnarled, knotty old stump had split itself into a thousand, pieces. " „ •
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 73, 22 August 1938, Page 1
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167SAW THE POINT AT LAST Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 73, 22 August 1938, Page 1
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