ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

* The longer I live,' sighed the sage, ' and the more I learn, the more firmly I am convinced that I know absolutely nothing ! ' 'I could have told you that twenty-five years ago,' said the wife, ' but I knew it would be of no use.' ' I say, old man,' whispered a young fellow who found that the conversation of his new acquaintance was highly agreeable, ' let's come and smoke a cigar in the garden. That woman's squalling gets on my nerves.' ' Thanks,' was the quiet reply, ' but as it is my wife who is singing, perhaps it would hardly do ! ' A glorious thing contentment is, And yet, 'tis man's sad lot To allus want what isn't his Instead o' what he's got. A teacher in a public school asked the children to define the word ' advice.' ' Advice,' said a little girl, 'is when other people want you to do the way they do.'