A Hibernian, fresh from the Green Isle, having sufficient means to provide himself with a horse and cart (the latter a kind probably he had never seen before), went to work on a public road. Being directed by the overseer to move a lot of stones near by and deposit them in a gully at the side of the road, he forthwith loaded his cart, drove up to the place, and had nearly finished throwing off his load by hand, when the " boss " told him that was not the way—he must tilt or dump his load all at once. Paddy replied that he would know better next time. After loading again he drove to the chasm, put his shoulder to the wheel, and upset the cart, horse, and all, into the gully. Scratching his head, and looking rather doubtfully at his horse below him, he observed, " Bedad, it's a mighty expeditious way, but it must be trying to the baste,"
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1206, 26 December 1871, Page 3
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