THE FARMER’S “LOSS.”
One of the principal farmers belonging to an agricultural club in Devonshire had lately lost his wife, and in his kind way the old Earl of Devon alluded to her at the annual club dinner —speaking of her as an admirable, kind, and industrious woman, and saying how he could feeK with such a loss, having had himself a bereavement which 'was ever present to him. But at last the farmer interrupted him: "I doan’t know what his lordship be a talking about, but. I du know that she was an awful, cranky, tiresome old woman, and God Almighty’s very welcome to her.”
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 2 August 1915, Page 3
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106THE FARMER’S “LOSS.” Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 2 August 1915, Page 3
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