SPIRIT OF THE DONKEY
It is not given to eVery caiididate to silenee an interjector with such a smashing blow as was delivered by Mr. A. A. McLachlah, Indepenierit United candidate for Riccarton, when he was engaged in heated repartee w'th his audience. Ope jnan becam.e a nuisance, so Mr. McLachlan toid the following story which eompletelji turned the tables :--"Ohee upon a timp when I was inuch younger than I ani pow, my little hrothers and si'sters and I took home a donkey i which we used to beat. My. mother, who , was a humanitarian, used to tell us that it we did not stop beating the donkey it would die, and its spirit would come and haunt us for' the rest of pur days. Sure enough the donkey cl'ed. Behold, ladies and gentlemen'? (with a finger toward the hian at the. back of the hall), "the spirit of the j donkey."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 November 1931, Page 2
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