"STUMPED."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 251, 27 November 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

"STUMPED."

A loud-voiced gentleman on one of the Mandt, wa s boasting to a party of admiring youngster.-, about the dough t\ deeds he h:.d dune in die cricket field in days; gone by. Suddenly he turned his attention to tbo band. "Ah!" ho observed "those follows play decently, but they've fallen off terribly since I was a member of the band."' "What!" exclaimed one of the hearers with a twinkle in his t yo. "you played with that lot?" "Certainly." was the reply. "I was with them for years." Then the crowd laughed and tho boastful gentleman moved oil hastily on learning that the instrumental'sts were tho pick of the local lunatic asylum.

I.YRTCS FROM THE POETS

WAITING

Sonirtinws. when Mtnset skies are overcast, And I have, lived my day as beet I know, T fall to dreaming, and remember fo The golden hours thut thimnwed a.s they passed Sometimes, when tired eyes, arc filling fast 1 hear thv near mo, hushed and slow; 1 feel thv ki&3 upon my hand and grow Totrard the calm of porfeet peace at last. '•Siuietinice my lonely houl cries out for thee, .My hungry heart pleads for thee, deep within. Then once again I hear thv dear voice Mill, .Mi. sweetheart! K;iv that in Eternity God gives ns back these long-lo s t years, and in A Milling Luilaut hi sh-dl find Iheui air -Myrtle Rml,