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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4602, 17 September 1923, Page 4

Recently a man called at a farm and asked for a job, stating he had walked many miles and was dead beat (says an exchange). Te was willing, he said, to work for anything at all. The landowner, who at the time had more men than he needed, gave the man a feed and a bunk for the night„ and, during the course of the evening, rang up a friend, who said he would give the man a job at 30's a week and found. In the morning the landowner said to the man ; "Well, I have got you a job at 30s a week.” ‘‘Oh,’’ said the man, who had now rested and bee.i well fed, “I would not work for any man for less than £2 a week.” "Well, pick up your swag and get out of this—you do not want work,” said the farmer. The man promptly left. Efaeh Summer’s eve as the sun goss down, I watch till daddy comes home from town. To pass the time while I gaily wait, I sing and swing on the garden gate. But when the days are gloomy and chill I perch within on the window sill, Till daddy arrives and I make sure He thought of Woods’ Great Peppermint glare.