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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1670, 29 March 1886, Page 2

' Some of the farmera around Halcombft ; nave lately been annoyed by sqme boys; who hare been amusing themiel/es by catching sheep, fowls, and ducks, tying, their legs together, and leaving them Iy4 ing on the^ ground. O^Tb^qrsday a f ijr-j mer caught; three of these, boys jthus en}-! p)oy«d:oa. his land, and iuimediateiyj , tpok them down to the R.\T, (who wa«j ;|till m Hajoohib*), fr«in ; wHp^m theyVje-i chived a w.ariiing lectuM with promise' i o£."'Baformato i ry" if they were brought \ before- -hi in again. There is . no ' dbqtbt the boys received, a lesson that th«y will remember for som«, time to come,—; •Meraid. . '-■■■ ■ 'J. .".'!". ;-,"(.. ...',■:'.'!' ,' ? .,'-' | ' Two Highlanders wer« teen on tbs • oban st^aTjer, one of whom -carried; qs4 tentatiously a large . red handkerchief; ''His friend m the • course^ -iof ;.' : the, 'journey, < • produced an < orange, ■ . and <procead*d ;:to'» suck it. - /He!.; of the <bandkercbi«f 'lookod curiously; at it for a few'motnettta, and then exclaimed, ': Sere 1 ; Sandy^mon; gie us .a,auok o' yt>ur-orange, andl'll gie'you a blow. o f ; ma napkin." ~ : — ' ! ' We dd not .'intend to 'moralise^6'veii ! such, ari everyday^ common-Dlace occiii--; rencia as that wViicH ( we; are abbot to record m a half-dozen lines. A young; fellow about 23 years of age, canie to town from the country about three weeks ago, with some £22 m his pocketi He' has had a real good, half rtight; time, knocked down the money, and is now* going back to make i some rapre^ which he will doubtless again expend m proourine the same ecstatic enjoy men t> '"^Exchange. ' , ' .