The Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1880.
Mechanics’lnstitute.—We wou’d r«mind the members' of the above that, according to advertisement els wln-re, they . are: requested to attend tin* annual general meeti' g, which v»i!l he held 'n the reading room next Thursday at 8 p. m. ■harp, business being very important. PhECEPT and Example.- Great Gran ’, papa ; Oh Indeed! you can bek your • .sisters at lawn-tennis, can you ? Well done my boy ! but beware of self-conceit. and ne.rer brag. Wiiy, I could lick everybody ’ at lawn-tennis when I- ns your age— or i onld have done, if there’d been any h>wnt- ntis to pl>y. I was the best cricketer, the best fencer, the best boxer, rumn*r 'jumper,-swimmer, and dr ver I ever came across, either at school <»r ’college. orafter; and in classics and mathematics I I»eat ’em all clean out of tl.e field ! As for riding no one ever touched me ; or dancing eithir ; let alone that I was the handsomest'mtm in the county, and the best —.drefi* d, f or that matter ; besides being toe wittiest -tud iiu-at ]#Hnlu. Ay, and iriic! a song I could sLu r , 100 ! And yet a «nore.medrst and unassuming demeanour limn mine it’s never hern my gcod for* ime to set eyes on. man or boy, these fourscore y* *rs and ten.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 223, 13 January 1880, Page 2
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