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Te Aroha News, 15 February 1890, Page 2

The following conversation took place lately between a land agent in Ireland and an outlying tenant who had declared his inabality to pay the rent :— 1 Begoira, thin, your honour,’said I>. nnis, ’ the n'nt is hey ant me! I haven’t the manes to pay.’ ‘Come now,’ retorted the agent, ‘that won’t do ! Don’t I know it’s in In', you were only the hist market-day and sold two beasts for a pot of money?’ ‘An’that’s the tliruth, your honour ; hut it’s not mine the beasts were atall. Sdinre wasn’t it the Widder Laniganl was sell n’ them for? It’s nery a slip of a calf have I owned this year past.’ The Agent ‘Then where did all the manure for your fine patch of potatoes come from ?‘ ‘Manure is it, your honour ? Sorro a hit of manure has the ground seen tlie.-e two years, hairin’ the sweat of iny brow!’ ‘ Well, Denny, as 1 happen to know you paid the money for those beasts that you ray were the Widow Lanigan’s into your own account a': the bank, I shall take measures fo" evicting you if the rent is not paid. ’ 1 Och, now, your honour, you’re too diver for me tntoirely 1 Mebbe I’ll step round with it in the inorninV —Exchange.