LOST TIME

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 29

LOST TIME

The worst of Angela Anno was that when she sat down to do her home work she never could do it straight off. She always fidget ted nnd drew cats or. her blotting paper, and flowers on the cover of her poetry book, and so. even if she had only two lines of copy to write, and one verse of the “Lady «*. Shalott" to learn, she took dreadfully long over it. She lost so much time. One day. while she sat staring out *»t the window, thinking about everything except her lessons, she was surprised to find that, instead of looking into the garden, she was gazing into a dreary cave in which an old man — very tired-looking old man—was walk ing miserably round and round. Ho spoke to Angela Anno. "Why do you let me get lost like this?” he d* manded. *Tm Time, and when I'm lost I get confused nnd don’t know what to do." “Oh. dear. T didn't know. Wliat can I do about it?” said Angela. “Why. save me! That is to say. dont look at me any more, but do you: lessons doubly quick now.” Angela felt so sorry for having wor ried him that she began to work her hardest at once. She was more than doubly quick—she was trebly. Soon she had finished all she had to do. bu, ever afterwards she remembered the sad old man. and from that day to this she has never lost time. RIDDLES What is the longest game of all? Chess, because it takes four (k)nights to play a game. Why - pianos noble characters?Because ti.ey are upright, square, and grand. Of what virtue does the North Pol* remind you?—Just-Ice. "What is the largest room in the world? —The room for improvement. TWO SMILES A small boy was watching a bright glow in the sky with the utmost delight. “I am glad you admire the beauties of nature, my son.” remarked an old gentleman. “Isn’t it a lovely sunset?" “That’s not a sunset.” answered the boy with a broad grin. “That’s our school on fire!” “I am living by the canal now,” wrote a man to his friend. "Drop in one night.” —Sent, in bv "Miriam Evans.