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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2628, 9 October 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

FABLES OF /ESOP THE SLAVE. THE JACKDAW AND THE PIGEONS. A jackdaw who noticed that the pigeons in a certain dovecot were very well fed. whitewashed his feathers in order to look' as much like a dove as_possib!e, and went and lived with thrrn. The pigeons, so long as be kept silent. *did not recognise him ; but at last he forgot that he was acting the part of a dove, and began to chatter like a jackdaw. Then the pigeons saw what he was, and drove him easily away. But when he flew hack to the church tower, the other jackdaws, not knowing him in his discolored feathers, also drove him away, so that he had no home to go to. (It is no use pretending to be what we are not. for we are sure to be found out sooner or later.) THE THIEF AND THE DOG. A thief came to rob a certain house one night, but was disturbed by a fierce dog, which kept continually barking at him. Upon this, the thief, thinking to stop l is mouth, threw him a piece of meat. The dog refused it with indignation, Iling him that before he only suspected him to be a bad man. but now he was certain of it. He added that the care of his master's house was entrust- : ; d to him. and he should never stop ! harking while* such a man was about. ("When anyone offers no a present not : to tel!, wo may bo sure that there is , something wrong.) THE FOX AND THE BOAR. A b oar' one day was sharpening his i rusks against the trunk 1 of a tree. A ; fox who happened to be passing at the j same time asked wh- he wan j these warlike preparations when there ! was no enemy near. The boar answered: "That is quite .true. Air. Fox; but we should always : -harpen our weapons while we have ■ ’ 'sure, for in time of danger we shall j hare something else to do.” (Never l>e idle. We can always find j something to do.) | THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. j A man once had a goose which laid ! a golden egg every day: butj he was j so greedy that be was not content with j this, and so he killed the go<ise and -"t her open, thinking that lie would i fine enormous riches inside her. But, to I his great disappointment, he found , nothing; and after the gcose was ldli led. of course, no more golden eggs | we-e laid. j (We gain nothing by being greedy.)

| Jack: •'Hallo, Tom, old man, got your now flat fixed up yet?” | Tom: "Mot quite. Say. do vnu know j where I can buy a folding toothbrush?” ! Mrs. Rashun: "That new beehive "T understand that our friend Hunt- | or.” said Joakley. ‘‘is working on a big i money-making scheme to remove I weeds.” "The idea!” exclaimed Croakley. ”1 I didn't know lie took any interest in ! gardening.” j "He doesn’t. He's merely laying his plans to. capture old Gotrox’s pretty widow. ” - - TRUE THRIFT. "When visiting a certain town in the j midlands.” says a medical man, ”1 was | t rid of an extraordinary incident wherein the main figure, an economical | housewife, exhibited, under trying cirj on instances, a trait quite characteristic lof her. It seems that she had. by mis- ! take taken a ouantit-- of poison—mer- ! curial poison—the antidote for which, as jw -• all should know. comprises _ the I whites of eggs. When this antidote was being administered, the order for which, the unfortunate lady had overhoard, she managed to _ murmur, although almost unconscious: ‘Mary, Ma-rv! Save the volks for the puddings!’ ”

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