THE WISE MEN
A Greek and a Venetian were quarre lling about the excellence of their cot mtries. The Greek, in order to pro ve that his country excelled all otht rs, said; —- “B ut everybody knows that all the wise men and philosophers came out of Ga'eece.” “Tin it must be true,” answered the Veneti-.tn, “for there are no more to be fonu ad there.” A Can adian Government exploration party ha s lately come across a spruce tree whic h had been preserved in the ice of the great North American glacier in far -away Alaska. The glacf er had receded and left the tree expose d after an imprisonment estimated at hundreds of thousands of years. The . spruce was apparently 124 years old wli en the glacier enveloped
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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131THE WISE MEN Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 6
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