AN EXPLODED IDEA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 544, 20 September 1872, Page 2

AN EXPLODED IDEA.

Some of our readers are aware that :n England, among other prizes offered at agr.cultuml shows, there arc usually ten shillings devoted 10 reward a servant who j has iieeu longest in one employ, and another ten shillings for the married man who has reared the largest family on the smallest wages, without parish help. A story i. related that a winner of the latter prize always took off his hat to a pig whenever he chanced to meet one ; <m being asked the reason, he replied- “ Well, maister, you see pig took a prize of two pun at larst show with ony a litter o’ seven, what had all b°cn provided for by her owner : well, I allowed thirteen that I reared all mysen out o’|tvn shillons, a week, and ony got a piize of ten shillons. so 1 consider the pig Is above me, and therefore I takes off my hat.” At thelate show of the Western Agricultural Society, held in Bathurst, a spi cial prize was offered by Mr. John Smith to the value of 2 1 , for the female servant who should produce a certilicate of the longest continuous service iu one place. One s lilary competitor appeared in the list of urtiics ; her service reached four years and a half, and she received the piize. If Mr. Smith Lad reversed the conditions, and • ili red a prize tor the mistress who had Irccn longest under the dictation of her servant it. is more than probable the 1 nines w oulu have 1 een large and the competition keen. In Australia, ti expect servants to remain tor a y Ua.th of tinn in one situation is an insult to tho independence of tl.o , class.