MINDED HIS OWN BUSINESS.
A pedantie nil! fellow was passim; j 1 aldiiL,' the r;;nd one day, when lie «.)!>- c served a tiinteller thatching a house. i r Slopping to look al hin;, tho old mail I ( a: length hroke in.: , "I say, sir, you are not that ( piee" properly." Without at tempting: to answer the I . iii.-iiiuatinn. the man nn the roof .simply I ( looked round rnd inquired : I "Vi ill you u! 1 (jo me to tell ye a 1 \ Ktory?' 1 I j " Corf ainlv," was the reply. j 1 "Well, there was a man in oor eoun- : ( try who got very rich, and dao ye ken I ! oo?'' j , "No." returned the stranger. If "Well, then," said 11 thateher. with j ; due eninhasis on every word, "it win . j:4 hv inindin' his run business." Tho'c who are ouit<> satisfied «?it «!ill j < an'l do nothing; those who are not i rjnite satisfifvl are the sole benefactors ! of the world.—W. R. Landor. I 1
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 24, 26 March 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)
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167MINDED HIS OWN BUSINESS. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 24, 26 March 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)
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