A GOOD STORY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1018, 2 November 1912, Page 4

A GOOD STORY.

A good story Is told at the expense of an Irish farmer up the country, whose kuowledge of Latin was not his strongest point, but who did not believe in admitting bis ignorance. A pair of jovial souls, oue of whom had not made the best use of his Bachelor of Arts degree, were travelling the country the other day with a farmer’s line, and called on the Irishman. After the usual opening observations about the weather, butter-fat, and the iniquitous price of postage stampsaud sausages, the conversation naturally turned to cows. Suddenly (says the Waverley correspondent of the Patea Press) the degree man focussed his eyes on a sickly looking beast, and adopting the air of a man who knows, said: “That cow has got ‘ Tempus fugit. ’ ” “That is it,” said the farmer, "and a bad thing, too, but Oi’m getting her to rights.” “ Ora pro nobis is a bad thing,” continued the wag. Fiunerty down the road has two cows down with it.” “ Has he, then ? It’s a plague of a thing. Oi lost two with it last summer,” rejoined the farmer, and then wishing to shift the conversation off so dangerous ground, remarked: “ That’s not a bad lump of a horse.” “ Indeed, be isn’t,” said the 8.A., “ but he’s got a touch of ‘Semper Fidelis,’ just now.” As the pair drove away the farmer could not account for the unrestrained merriment which went up from the gig.