Under The Circumstances
“I remember on one occasion making the discovery, soon after my arrival for the first time at one of the great sheep-stations back of Bourke, that I had two large holes in my trousers just where you would expect holes to come in the pants of a man who spent as much time as I did on the saddle. After a bit I said to the charming ladies, who had given me the usual hospitable bush welcome, ‘You may think it odd, ladies, that I go out of the room backwards. Of course in England we do that when leaving the presence of Royalty, but I am doing it simply because the state of my circumstances is such that I do not like to turn round.’ To which I received the prompt reply: ‘lf that’s your trouble, leave your circumstances outside the door when you go to bed tonight and we’ll have them mended before the morning.’. And they did.” (The Rev. C' H. S. Matthews speaking on “The • Bush Brotherhood” in the BBC’s Pacific Service).
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 61, 28 June 1948, Page 5
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179Under The Circumstances Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 61, 28 June 1948, Page 5
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