The Poet and Scientist.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 7

The Poet and Scientist.

FttS i*\s pboi iiiid ifctf inie scientist *r*' aot fifettttngod. Th«y go forth lnt« n*ttt*6* llko two friends. Behold them strollifigthrough the summer fields and woods, tht? younger of the two is much the more active? and inquiring ; he is ever and anon stepping aside to examine some object mortP minutely, plucking a flower, treasuring *- <hell, pursuing a bird, watching a buttertiy ; now he turns over a stone, peers into (he marches, chips oft' a fragment of a rock, *nd everywhere eeems intent on somv <pecml and particular knov/ledge of th« .hinge about him 'J he elder man has more m air of leisureiv contemplation and enjoy* •nent — is less ciuious about fpccinl object* md features and more desirous of putting" himself in haimony with the spirit ot the a* hole. But when his younger companion •»as any fresh and characteristic bit of iuormation to impart to him, howatt ntively. •Ie listens, how Mire and discriminating, if i\is Hppieciution. Tlio intere&ts of the two tn the univerte are widely dilieiuut, yet in no tiue ."-en so aie they hostile or mutually destiuctive.

Putting hie foot in it.— Mies Tartlette : "Didn't see you at the Biuk'a dance, Mr BoDßieboy." Apollo Bonnieboy : "No ; couldn't possibly get there. However, didn't mis* much, apparently. They tell me there wasn't a girl worth looking aV* [Awkward pauee. Apollo Bonnieboy M fleets, and wishes he'd done 60 ear iw.] A word of kindness ia seldom spoken in vim, It is a seed which, even when dropped by chance, springe up a flower.