A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO FIND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 294, 23 September 1880, Page 2

A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO FIND.

An unmarried woman who never had an offer. A pocket-knife that is never in " them other pant*." - A singer who never complaiqs of a. cold I when asked to sing. A pencil that is always in the first pocket you put your hand into. A child that would not rather eat between meals than at meals. A man who will refrain from calling his friend's speech a " happy effort." I A married man who does not think all j the girls envy his wife the prize she has capj tured. ! An editor who never feels pleased to have his good things credited, or mad. when they are stolen. A man who has been a fool some time during his life and knows enough to keep th e knowledge of it to himself. A mother who never said she " would rather do it myself " when she should have taught her child to d i that thing. A woman who, when caught in her second bes<; dress, will make no apology her dreadful appearance.—" Boston Herald." A person, age or sex immaterial, who does not experience a flush of pride u"on being thought what he is not and may never hope to be. A married woman who never said, "No wonder the girls don't get married nowadays : they are altogether different from what they were when I was a girl." A woman who remembers last Sunday's text, but is unable to speak understandingly of the trimming-, on the bonnet of the lad in the pew next in front. A man who never intimated' that the economies of the universe were subject to his i movements bv saying " I knew if I took an umbrella it wouldn't rain," or some similar asinine remarks.