WOULD RATHER REMAIN WHERE HE WAS.
The harvest —a good one —was over and the farmer had decided to give a feast to all his hands. The farmer's wife flitted about everywhere, in the endeavour to make everybody feel perfectly at home. In order to bestow special honoui on the head man she graciously in vited him to sit down on her right hand. The man, however, remained silent and immovable, to all appearances quite overwhelmed with this toker of esteem. "Come," said the hostess, en couragingly, "don't be bashful. You' ve a right to the place of honour, you know." "Thanks to you,, missis," said tin man ; "but if it's all the same I'd rayther sit opposite this pudden !"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 429, 10 January 1912, Page 7
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120WOULD RATHER REMAIN WHERE HE WAS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 429, 10 January 1912, Page 7
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