Getting In Their Shot.
The visitor had already spoken at con siderable length, when he said to the children, whose attention had begun to wander, "And now T want to tell you of a boy I oi;ce knew.
"He had a -good father and mother," the \ isitor continued, when he found several pairs of eyes had returned to their eurvev of his face, "and they did all that lay in their power to make hinr happy. Bu{ the boy was thoughtless and selfish ? he frittered away hi 3 time and never thought of the future.
"To-day, instead of filling an honourabl 0 and useful position in life, where do >ou suppose he stands, children, as a man?"
"He etands before us !" shrilled all the little boys and girls in prompt and joyous unison.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 91
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133Getting In Their Shot. Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 91
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