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For him who bravely says, ' I will",' The world's rewards may be but scant "; But always they'll be scanter still For that one jsho complains II 11I 1 can't.'
"I'm ashamed of this composition, Charley,' said a teacher in. oiie of the Taranaki schools the other day. ' I shall send for your mother and. sliow her how badly you -are doing.' , - ~ ''' Send for heir — I don't care,' said Charley. 'Me mudder wrote it, anyway.' Characteristic of the -readiness of the Celt is- a reply noted in ' Leaves fro'irn the Diary of Henry Greville.' ' I cannot get over your nose,' said a frank American 'woman to an Irish novelist, whose nose was flattened. ' - % ' No wonder you can't,' he retorted, ' for the bridge is broken.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 38
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126ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 38
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