THE REPORT REPOR FUL.
A writer in tlic Transrual Leader tolls of a JSaer who resolved to take a vise out of tlie Agricultural Department. Having to send in ~. "blond-smear" of a dead ox. lie -iibi'iy prepared a second, with his own jrore', and told his iieijfhfiors of the foo] he was makfltg. of the "ingevnorde Enfrolsplmmn,* imported Englishman—anil .hi* new-fangled rogulatbOiw '' Nome weeks later, when the long "n----velope brought the official report, lie calleifTo his neighhors to rejoice with him over the jest, and the schoolmaster was pressed to interpret the .precious re-1 port, which ran somewhat as follows:--"To Johannes llcmlrik Petnis Jfo.mzaier, Esq., VTakwirkrontehi. Sir.— With rpre.re.uce to the Mood-smears furnished by you on tho Ifith ult., T have the honor to Inform you that the one ! —that of an ox—show's no trace of dis--1 pears to be that of a baboon in an advanced stage Qf ftnile d*«ay,-.l have," «'»< i : .' . .!.!;.:*; LiA.;!lti
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 104, 29 May 1909, Page 4
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154THE REPORT REPOR FUL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 104, 29 May 1909, Page 4
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