STRATEGY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

STRATEGY.

The lady with the steely blue eyes and the pink elbows bounded into th:> local grocer's shop, and addressed the proprietor : "Morning," she said affably. '"l'd like another dozen o' them eggs you sent me yesterday."

"Certainly,"' smiled tk> shopkeeper, "are you making puddings again?" "No, thank you," sniffed the lady: " I want them eggs for something more profitable this time. There's a quarter's rent owing, and tliose eggs are going to come in useul." "Indeed! Are you going to offyr your landlord sme pancakes ! J "

"Not much," answered the customer. "You see, he's coming this morning for the rent. So if I crack them eggs and hide them in the yard it's ten to one he'll cry quits about the rent, thinking it's the drains!"

APTLY QUOTED

On a transatlantic liner, during a recent voyage from Liverpool lo New York, there was a dapper littla fellow from London whose unlimited conceit made him anything but popular with his fellow-passengers. He was so ready of wit that he usually had the best of It in repartee. Each time, of course, he became more conceited than before. It was a bright Brooklyn school teacher who finally wrought his downfall. One day, in a sheltered spot on the deck, some of the passengers were passing the time in playing a game of quotations. As they sat in a semi-eircle, each turn gave a quotation —the first quotation beginning with "A," the second with "B." and so on. The special point was to give a quotation suggested! in some way by the preceding ont; or bv the person who had given it. Chance brought the Brooklyn schoolteacher seventh in line, next to the young man from London. When the young man's turn came, he looked rouild with a superior smile, and quoted: — "Frailtv. thy name is woman."

Thero wis an instants hesitation; then the clear, level tones of the young teacher w. re heard: —• "God made him; therefore let him for (i man!" The roar of laughter that followed broke up the game. For the rest )f voynfie the damper young man thought in or. l and talked less.