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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 249, 27 August 1879, Page 2

_ In the course of his travels in Equatorial Africa, an explorer meets a bright intelligent mulatto, who was the slave and body-servant of the negro king. " Come with me to Europe," he says to the slave; " Ycu may be happy yet," The mulatto hesitated. " Come," repeated the traveller ; " here you are but a slave, yonder you will be a servant.

Only twopence . halfpenny. —Mayfair gives the following story told at a school at Hawkshead, where Wordsworth learnt the alphabet, and where is name may still be traced cut roughly on the corner of the desk on your right hand as you enter : " A boy has been set to work out a sum in long division. The quotient would fall short of the correct result, and again and again the master sent the lad back to the task. The boy succeeded at last in getting to within twopence-half-penny of the required amount ; but the inexorable master again referred him to his slate. The boy moved off sulkily, when suddenly turning, he exclaimed—pulling some coppers from his breeches pocket, "Well, look here; if its only two-pence-half-penny we'll say no more about it. Let the thing go, and Illmake up the difference myself,