TOO HOT FOR HIM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 243, 19 January 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

TOO HOT FOR HIM.

Young Dodkins came to the conclusion that city life was unsuited for his sj.eci.i! abilities, so lie applied to a farmer to give him a j<jb. The farmer - vas widing. and set Dodkis to clean up the farmyard, clean out the pigsty r.nd i ; w-shed, ar.d gancally make the .homes of the animals sweet and comfortable. The voting man from the city sot t<> work with a wal. and ntly tufa rir.er left him and remarked to his wife that " the t-!>.vn chap warn't si: h ;i bad fellow to work after all." A few lions later, when the farmer was at dinner, t~ • door burst c,.>e*\ and in tumbled the new hand, his lijV swollen. botii eyes almost closed up. and red lumps protruding all over hj;» features. " 'Ere, guv"nor," lie gsssped." "gim m» my coat; I'm o(Tl "Why. what's the matter?" said th* former. "Matter? No more country jobs for me. What's up? Blessed if I know quite; but ft happem-d when I started to clenn out tlv bee-hive!"