Harbor Board Block Chips

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 23, 22 August 1891, Page 2

Harbor Board Block Chips

[OTTR OWN CORRESPONDENT."] It is not everybody who possesses the valuable quality of turning eyils to the best account, but in this respect Messrs Stewart and Billet appear happily endowed. Haying the misfortune to have their bush burnt accidentally early in the season, these gentlemen sowed turnip seed early, which, aided by the abundant rain, produced an immense crop, from which they have already drafted off sev- j eral fine lots of fat sheep. Like all country districts we have the usual complement of bachelors, whose troubles and strange vagaries often afford interesting matter for comment. One veracious individual of this useful class, seriously informs me that for a whole month, after paying a visit to Feildingv where he left the key of the front door of his house (he says ?• front " door out of pride and a desire for ostentation, because there is only one door in the whole whare) he has had to crawl through one of the windows (there is only one) dragging his dog after him, "like a thief in the night." You need, not be surprised to hear of a marriage here very shortly. Quite a large number of those objectionable geniuses yclept pedlars have been tramping this part of the country lately, and when their efforts to palm off their wares do not meet success their language to ladles when there " isn't a man about" is the reverse of polite. We are a quiet people and our ways are nice, when other people " behave as sich " and act accordingly ; but where our women-folk are concerned we are apt to prove nasty. We won't shoot pedlars, nor will we set the dogs at them — but, let them beware, for Nemises is on their track, whether bridle or pack. As the poet said " Goroo is the gash, and gurgling is the gore of the pedlar."