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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 September 1914, Page 2

A Scotsman was riding a donkey one day across a sheep , pasture ; but when the animal came to a sheep drain, he would not go over. So the man rode back a short distance, turned, and applied the whip thinking, of course, that the donkey, when at top speed, would jump the drain. But when the donkey got to the drain, he stopped sharply, and the man went over his bead, and cleared the drain. No sooner had he touched the ground than he got up, and, looking the beast straight in the face, said :

Verra weel pitched ; but hoo are goin" to get ower yersel' '?"