TOUGH ENOUGH.
Hugh Gottyh, of Borcmr/Ab ridge, was a dough soldier on a furlough, but a man of roughty deeds in war, though before he fought for his country he was a thovongh dough-faced ploughman. Hie horse having been houghed ip an engagement with the enemy, faugh was taken prisoner, and I ought to add was kept on a short enovgh dough of food, and Buffered from drought as well as from hunger. Having on his return home drunk too large a draught of w.quebaugh, he became intoxicated, and waa l&ttghlng, coughing, and hirco?/fjr7«ri(j by&brough against which he sought to steady himself. He waa accosted by another rough, who showed him a cough which he had caught in a clotigh near ; also the slough of a snake which he held at the end of a tough bough of a eugh tree, and which the dog had found and bro'icght to him from the entrance to a Bough which ran through and drained a e\oug7i that was close by in the neighbourhood.
Anxious. He— "Ah, yes, that is the dearest little hand in the world, and, Luoinda, I may some day aek you for it." She— -"Ask now, George, aek now."
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 173, 9 October 1886, Page 4
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200TOUGH ENOUGH. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 173, 9 October 1886, Page 4
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