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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 3

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* A SUBSTITUTE. The parish clerk of a certain village was a bit of a poet. One Roy he came to the vicar: “ Well, Thomas, what is it ?” “Well, you see, sir, one of the hymns for next Sunday has got in ic—And may our hearts in tune be found, like David’s harp, of solemn sound 1’ Now, there ain’t many of our people as have ever seen a harp, so it don’t convey no meanin’ to ’em. If yon don’t mind, air, I should just like to alter it. They do know wind a violin is like, for old David Jones leads the choir with one. Don’t you think ic would sound hotter to say—‘And may our hearts be tuned within, like Uncle David’s violin?’” The vicar smiled and said, “ Not at all bad, Thomas. Very well.” When the time came, however, for reading out the hymn in morning service, old Thomas had forgotten the little slip of paper on which he had written the lines. He tried to do without it. “‘And may our hearts—and may om hearts—and may our hearts but stuck fast. No, he could not think how it wont. At last a bright thought Unshed through ins mind, and 'he gave out triumphantly— “ And nr<y our hearts go iddle-diddlo, like Uncle David’s little liddle.” A GIRL’S CHALLENGE. The challenge marie by an American mimed Blackburn to race anyone across tho Atlantic in a small boat bus been accepted (says the Express) by a girl not yet eighteen years of age. Black bum’s boat, the Great Republic, is 35ft long, 7ft beam, and deep ; but Miss Carpenter will sail in a canvas boat lift long, now being built by Captain A. Andrews, the Lone Voyager, who will act as skipper. The challenge of Blackburn, who has neither feet nor hands, is for a race from Gloucester to Lisbon, Portugal, for lOOdol t side, or more. Miss Carpenter and Captain Andrews intend to travel through the principal cities of England after the race, which is expected to’ take nearlj’’ sixty days. Food will be carried in airtight tin cans, which will use up nearly all the spare room in the boat.