For Pastures New

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 5

For Pastures New

on a matter concerning the public peace, did he remonstrate wtih the shepherdess over the telephone, only to receive abuse 7 m reply. To him the thought of r sheep going through a fence or over a stile was no sedative — far from it. Caring not for the havoc \he wrought upon this pastoral scene, he invoked the aid of powers mightier still, and' Mrs. Conquest's straying f lock found its way to the, .local pound.. Then, instead of leaving it at that, William Frederick interviewed Mrs. Conquest and informed her of the fact m terms, it was said, more naughty than knightly. * '; ' But the alleged culminating annoyance to Rassmussen and his worthy spouse occurred on May 2. Arising from his bed m wrath, he beheld the nibbling Conquest flocks' once again invading his pastures. ■ Whereupon, like the Assyrian of old, William Frederick gathered his cohorts and descended like a wolf on the fold. The whole Rassmussen , family', careless of the feelings of the sheep thus rudely assaulted, took the field and proceeded to hold a mustering. "To the pound ! " shouted ' William Frederick, leading his legions, and brandishing aloft a piece of four by two. . , . * But the faithful sheep were not to go without a struggle. As the, regiment of Rassmussen,. gathering to the charge, swooped; upon the prey, Shep-7 her dess Eileen Conquest, while givingih©. heng their Uttlft daily. 7 dosa,..per-