Loss.
Life knowa no winter when the heart is light ; Tho' Blues are gray, and dull the waning year, Mid cloud and gloom the world is fair and bright ; For all is summer when one smile is here. Life knows no summer when the heart is sad ; Tno' skies are blue, and fields with verdure grow, Can song or blossom make the world seem glad' Ah, no ! 'tis winter when one smile is flown.
Ii is difficult to understand now what an inconvenient world this was to get along in before Yankee ingenuity made its appearance. It is mentioned as an historical fact that, while barrel- -naking has been known to the Chinese for several thousand years, they laboured under one great drawback. They did not know the peculiar twist of the wrist by whioh our coopers put heads in. The ouly method that struck them as feasible was to place a boy inside to hold up the heading while the cooper tightened the hoops. But how was the boy to get out ? This remained an unsolved problem for three thousand years. — Detroit Free Press.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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185Loss. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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