Familiar Features
A city youth was sent to take an inventory of a farm. He hadn’t any experience in this type of work, but he managed to make a list of all the chattels and stock until he came to an animal which he was unable to identify—a goat. So he phoned his boss, and said: “What do you call this thing that’s around here with a rough coat worn out in spots, a white heard, and a long, sad face.” The boss replied: “That, you fool, is the farmer!”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 37, 14 October 1946, Page 2
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90Familiar Features Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 37, 14 October 1946, Page 2
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