Small Potatoes

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1916, Page 2

Small Potatoes

(liy AVALT~jrASOX.) The man who has a patch of beans, or succotash, or other greens, believes the gods woukl make a hit if for that patch's benefit they regulated wind and rain; and when thev don't, it gives liini pain. If from his littie footy liclcl he tliink.s he'll have a bounteous yield, he doesn't seem to c.ire a rnp how it may fare with t'other c' ap. Destroying hail may fall and beat the stufling from a neighbour's wheat : a cloudburst spoils xoine fellow's oats, mid drowns another's shorthorn <hoats ; or maybe. just across the way. the lightning hits :1 Mack of .hay: and be will view his little stretch of artichokes. and say ((the wretch). "The climate's perfect. 1 maintain; there's just enough of wind and rain; no man could ask a better show than we are getting here below!"' Hut if his little patch of rape he find* is in unthrifty shape, the fact that neighbours' crops arc fine will not prevent his doleful whine. He is a small bore skate, you say; ah. well, we all are built that way.