WITH GOOD REASON
He was a healthy-looking man to be begging, and the gentleman eyed him suspiciously. ‘ I can’t give you any money,’ he said, sternly. * A stout, able-bodied fellow like you ought to be earning a living.’ ■ * But I haven’t any work, sir.’ * That’s your own fault, I’ll venture to say. You lack energy. You didn’t throw yourself into your work when you did have it.’ ‘I wouldn’t like to have done! Nor would you, sir.’ * Oh, I wouldn’t, eh? Why not?’ ‘ Because I was a gravedigger.’
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New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1913, Page 62
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88WITH GOOD REASON New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1913, Page 62
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