COUPON CALAMITY

Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 28 May 1952, Page 6

COUPON CALAMITY

It really wasnT Drusilla's fault. She had always lived on a sheep farm where milk comes out of cows. Also- she and coupons were complete strangers; theyM never been introduced. When her hostess at Taupo said: "We must put out the mil^-billy tonight," Druscilla offered promptly, I "Let me do it for you." "Thank you dear; the billy is on the kitchen bench and youTl find the coupons in an egg-cup on the shelf. Small things; put in tw7o of the brown ones — that's for two pints." Now the present owner of the Taupo Milk Supply was a great hero and still is. Up and out every morning in winter, often in pouring rain, freezing wind or biting frosty aii* He must dodge defiant dogs, and push away pestering pussy cats which prevent his progress. And when billy lids are frozen fast, they are pain1 ful to prise open with numb fingers. j It is better, almost more hygenic, to place the lids on upside down and put the coupons on top. When summer comes there are hundreds more houses to supply in the i same amount of time; which makes j the milk run an anxious and gruelling race for five hours. Drusilla knew nothing about all that. She lit a candle and went into the kitchen. Seeing an egg-cup on the shelf and taking it down she tipped two brown , flat and round objects on to the palm of N hand. But they wrere not the • Coupon family at all, but the Pills ; superior aperient and highly respected in the medical wTorld. The Coupons lived 011 the same shelf and in ancther egg-cup; fhey were the tradespeople. | Drusilla, being a healthy, country g'irl, had never met either family, . so cheerfully slipping the two pills into the billy, she clamped on its lid j and carried it out to the gatepost j box. In the morning, the roundsman hadn't time to hold an inquiry into the why s and wheref ores ; so he wisely let the problem solve itself by neitlier taking the pills nor leaving any milk. — T.P.