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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 377, 30 April 1910, Page 9

FORCE OP HABIT The automobile enthusiast had bought a motor-boat. With a great flourish of trumpets, he strode out of the front door in the early morning to take his initial trip. Late at night, he crept in by the back door, his clothes dripping rivers, his hair .hanging over his eyes in plastered strings. "James," exclaimed his wife, what is it? Did vooi upset?" He drew up to the kitchen fire, shiver- j m |or a brief spell he sat with an abtsracted air. Then he looked up. "It's all ri<*ht, Mary!" he answered "No, I didn't upset. But when T had been on the water a few hours, something went wrong with the motor ; and " He paused. . "Well—well?" urged his good wife. "Well before I—cr—realised it, I was over the side, trying to get under the blamed thing to fix it! Habit, you know—just habit!" Fare (to cabbv): How do you manage keep yourself dry in this wet weather? Don't'you wear « waterproof? Cabliv: Xa, na, sir; T just ta a suit herrin' 'in the niornin' afore I come oot, and it keeps me dry a' day. "T trust. Mis Smith," asked a persevering vonnir man. sis he rose to depart, "that f have not taken un too much of vonr valuable time?" "Not n't all," replied the girl. "The time yon have taken un has been of no value to me whatever, T assure you!"