Fables.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2012, 30 May 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Fables.

thi; moor reader \xd the orator. An orator who had delivered a " a little offhand address "at a public meeting, carried the manuscript down to his favorite newspaper to be published. Next morning when he came to read the matter over hediscovered that the sentence " The Bulwarks ft Libsrty " had been changed to " The Bullrushes of Livonia." In great pain and consternation he rushed down to the oftice and sought out the proof-reader and exclaimed : " Alas ! that you should have made me the victim of ridicule and contempt. I feel as if I could paralyse you ! " " Gently, my friend," was the calm reply "Had you halted at the door below you would have found the editor writing a second page article in praise of this very sentence, which he declares to be origintl and bound to have a run. My inadvertence will make you famous." moral: There's none in it. The proof-reader always manages to wriggle out, no matter how Email the knot-hole. — Detroit Free Press.

A citizen- who " had had his attention called" to an item in a newspaper which seemed to lellect on liis integrity of character, made a bee-line for the office to thrash the editor. At the head of the second flight of staira he paused to wonder if it would not be wiser to demand a retraction. At the third lauding he had almost decided that the itrm contained no insinuations. At the fourth he decided to send tbe thrashing by letter. At the fifth he met the editor whom he started out to find, and handed him the cash for * year's subscription in advance. MOKAIi . First impulses are more apt to be wrong than right. >