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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 142, 17 December 1901, Page 1

A TIP TO ANGLERS. An Edinburgh Professor went to Strathmore for a day or two’s fishing, and took fishing tackle and worms with him. After fidiing fcr hours without success and b'aming the worms, he said to a boy who happened to be sitting on the paling near by—- *• Do you knew, xny boy, where lorn get go >d worms here 2” “ Ay !” arid the lad. “ Where, my boy ?” “ In the ground,” was the reply. NO FAITH. A curious example of the strange ideas some people entertain respecting the moaning of passages of Scripture is related of a man whose chief difficulty was concerning the Ark. “ I do not like,” he said, “ to refuse to believe in its size, or in its build, or in the number of animals it contained. Thut id all quite conceivable and diubtkai correct. But when lam asked to 1 elieve that the children of Israel carried it ab- tt f< r forty years in the wilderness —well, my fa tli bi'eaki down.”