A minister and his wife were discussing twd men who were in the news. “Yes,” said the minister, “I knew them both as boys. One was a clever, handsome fellow; the other a steady, hard worker. The clever lad was left behind in the race, but the hard worker—well, he died and left sixty thousand to his widow. It’s . a great moral.” “Yes,” replied his wife, with a smile, “it is. I heard this morning that the clever one is going to marry the widow.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 3
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