Rough-but True.
We've all met the people out here who are eternally lamenting that things are not as good in tbe colony as at Home. i€ The muttd*vyes. its not bad, bnt then you know it hasn't the flavour of English mutton." How often you hear that, and yet there's not one person in a thousand —I might almost say in ten thousand— in Great Britain that ever tastes as good mutton as you'll commonly get here on a station, or as is eaten and wasted by the station hands. People who, perhaps, at Home rarely tasted beef from one year's end to the other will grudgingly admit that Taranaki or Wanganui beef isn't bad, " but, you know, it hasn't the flavour of the beef we used to get." These people pretend to find our strawberries watery, our apples -woolly, /'our peaches tasteless — nay, I really think they have almost snivelled themselves into a belief that the very hens don't lay as they do at Home.— Truth.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 264, 13 May 1896, Page 3
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