...for helping a lame dog over the stile.' I afterwards bethought me of the words of Charles Kingsley : Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles;...Helping when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. The world has in it many ' lame dogs ' — lame socially, and morally, as well as physically ; and...

...over the English-speaking world, such as Charles Kingley's : Do the work that's nearest, Though 'tis dull at whiles, Helping, when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. 23 And (author unknown) : Tis well to be merry and wise, Tis well to be honest and true ; Tis well...

...Poppit, " that I could bear his pain for him ! " Dear Mamma used always to enjoin as a precept : " Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when you meet them, Lame Legs over stiles ! " And Poppit was embroidering this verse on her sampler. But for once she did not...

...portion, because of duty and work well done. Let us always remember Charles Kingsley's verse, and — " Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles." Surely Little Dorrit must have followed this faithfully all her...

...truth is simple. There was a jingle quoted largely when I was a child, written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Do the work that's nearest, though it's dull at whiles,...Helping when you meet them lame dogs over stiles. The quality of the verse is humble but the sentiment is surely worthy of the Dhammapada. And if we...

...sgraffitoed on wares for tourists on holiday in the coastal town of Torquay. A single example should suffice: Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles;...Helping, when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. THE PENNSYLVANIA TRADITION '6 The only community-based tradition of pottery poetics in the United States...

...upgrowth of all virtue. 5663 'The Invitatlon. To Tom Hughes' What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. lamps in a green night. 7069 'Bermudas' And makes the hollow seas, t we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. 5664 Letters to the Chartists We have used the Bible as if it...

...as I want to get a Cassette. ... 4 July 1977 Dear Richard... Do the work that's nearest Though its dull at whiles Helping when you meet them Lame dogs over stiles. Noel's letters to Joan Scrivener from the late 1960s on, are similarly redolent of a passing era. Noel...

...is a little poem that I think was the start of it. It goes: Do the work that's nearest though it is dull at whiles, helping when you meet them lame dogs over stiles. I found myself at twelve or thirteen reading that poem on the jug and thinking that those people needed...

...duties? And if we wish to follow Charles Kingsley's advice to " Do the thing that's next you, Tho' it's dull at whiles ; Helping, when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles!" there are few more practical ways than by becoming really good domestic servants and helping to smooth...