Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 75, 13 December 1892, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

♦ ' "Woomera," in the Australasian, iij responsible for the following : — i" It was on the way back from a .suburban race meeting, and one ' son 'oft: the sod,' who was hoeing the national fruit in a paddock, called to another on the roadway—* What woon the leppin' chase,, Tim V 'I neVer heetd/ 'w"as the reply, * but a man. toult me that -a. mare, called Tommy. woon the throtiri acanther." ' J "'f! l ißhe.rmen are noted tor the toughness of their yarns, but the following 1 , -une&nhed from & recent issue . of tUe Clutha County Gazette* beats the record as far as we know :— ' Mr .Garden met with a: peculiar experience whilst fishing; last week. Whilst whipping, the Kuriwad, he felt his hook get last to' something at his back.' dri-'looking rorind he discovered he had one of Mr Wallace's cows by the tail. He played the tail for a few minutes, but the cow went away, and took Mr Garden's hooks with her. Not a bad finishing " tail," is it f . But this puts ' the cap on it: As I; was passing the paddock a couple of ; hours after, 1 satr the cow with a four-pound trout hanging to heir tail.! She had been in the; creek for -a drink, and the fish had taken,' -the; fly,' An Irishman in an up-country town-, ship -was a noted fidiiief, but was nocy perhaps, so much : deVoted to hisr religious duties,. ; The priest called on; him brie day and reminded hi no ofhis 1 lapsed but Pat with reverence; submitted itiat he, was a good son of; the church, and waSias, regular at! mass "as, here and there a. wan."! " Let me hear you repeat the fourth commandment," said the priest. *' I disrimimber •it at this moment," ■said Patj " buVtfyourTivirince would whistle a few bars maybe I' might; ketch an to it." - „ . .., ■•