The Street Corner

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 9

The Street Corner

The slope of Avernus has an easy grade, and the road adown it is beaten hard by traffic, and sandpapered and greased by the devil and his angels. Many parents see their sons ' coasting ' down it on ballbearings, and are not particularly concerned. For youths, the quickest ways of ' scooting ' down the slippery slope are those learned at the devil's great University of Street Corner. Its benches are, in many of our cities, occupied in force, and its graduates swell, in time, the ranks of irreligion, and attain to the privilege of oakum-picking, while a few of the elect among them may reach at last the distinction of having His Royal Highness Jack Ketch preside at their passing to a worse or better world.