That 'Outfit'

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 9

That 'Outfit'

New Zealand Catholics who were a few years ago lured by oily-tongucd wheedlers into paying fancy prices tor a ' sfck-call outfit ' may be interested to learn that the same article is being retailed through the ordinary channels of trade, in, Australia at about sixty percent, less than was charged for it in this Colony. There are many ways of shearing sheep and plucking geese. One^ favorite method followed by slippery itinerant rogues 5 was the simple one of securing recommendations— by an odd present of their wares to Catholic persons or institutions whose word would have some weight with possible purchasers. Well, the children of this world are generally wiser in their generation than the children of light. There are few indeed of the arts of imposture that are not known to the itinerant vendors who pawn off gaudy rubbish on too confiding Catholics at not more than six times its proper selling price. And one of these arts finds expression in the old motto : ' Steal the hog, and give the. feet for alms '.