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Shannon News, 27 October 1922, Page 3

A proposal to sell a horse, which , has been used in the Cost ley Home garden for 2.1 years, and which is now j 25 years old, came before the Hospital ; Board recently, but did not meet with much support, it being agreed that the animal had earned an honourable re- j tirement. The horse’s teeth, it was stated, were coming out, and conse- : quently it was not able to get the full , benefit of its food and the work it Was j asked to perforin was too heavy for it. ; The suggestion that the horse should j be sold prompted one member to quote the lines from Swift: Rover, poor Rover you followed the gun, but now you , are old and unable to work, you are condemned to die by the Rev. Jones, and are going to be hung by bis clerk.”—Auckland Star. |