A Resourceful Milkman.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 71

A Resourceful Milkman.

:~ "Tou'li find," -'said" the proprietor of M ! dairy to.<a new milkman, who was taking over the "tha'£ the lady "at 75 K i* 'inclined to. find! fault. .."Sou must soothe' heo <iowrL'-ans" fac* be *rtto!e : to her^ she is. % ,pi-eit> gq«^^uatomer,'V ■; . * - . w- \ 'Xoaye .that- to rn'e, , air, answered the - ijaitkraari'.'* \\ - ■- - i v - t.- • «- - . '^ .- "Those- .egga you.lefib.here yesterday were stale," grunted the worean at No- 75 on,' thei milkman's 1 - second* 1 visit.. ". ' N ""Them heggs wua. laid 'arf-}an 'our a£or® iyou ,ad-em by special quictrhiying: hirda ' imported from the Mooly "Wompo Island^ i ma-'aroi and- they came down to this very i.'ouse -by Marconigraph, eb as, ye should* getr *em fresh.- A bit . of twangy flavourthey naay J ave, madam^^but you can lay* odds they worn't stale." , . ~ . The; fault lady gasped. ■ "The milk- didn't seem spy good as usual, yesterday either,."' she .ventured. 1 '"" . fi TRe -guvnor . will be cut nup when *a" that, ma'arc," continued "the milkman. " 'E sent downvto. Haljterney a-purpUs for a cow, wliat'll.eat nothing but peaches and( ■ pineagpleffi '. 'Never mind the hexpense,* i'Baysfiß. .. v 'This_'ere.cpw\re keeps a-purposel fprftEeilaxfec aft-:75;i and miraF it sleeps, rim a feather bedat-nigjits,'- he- says, e and don'fj i forget' the -heidedown 'quilt? Was there* arivthingiwrongiwith tie butter, ma'am!!!But- the laoV^ahootlheT 1 Head ;' she hajj (.been effectually appeased.