ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1907, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

Lord Rutherford was sitting .on the hillside with his old shepherd, and,-obser\ing that the sheep reposed in the coldest _ situation, he said to him: ' John, if I were a sheep 1 .would lie on the side of the hill.' ' Ah, my lord,' answered the candid shepherd, ' but if ye had Seen a sheep ye . would hae had mair sense ! ' '

A certain gentleman, when in London, boards at a' lodging house, the landlady of which is very punctual in her attendance at the Sabbath services. For this reason she insists that her boarders must be down early for breakfast on Sunday morning. The gent-le-man, however; one Sunday came down late. ' You^are late this morning, sir,' said the woman gently, but rather reprovingly. ' No, madam ! I spent half-an-hour on my knees this morning-p-^' ' That was 1 very praiseworthy of you,', she said,, smiling graciously. ' — hunting for a collar stud that rolled upon the floor and under the chest of drawers,' he concluded.