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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 89, 23 July 1910, Page 9

A FOND FAREWELL. She stood six-foot-two in her stockings, her weight ran into dozens of stones, and she was just twenty-one years old. "It ain't everyone I'd trust my little girl to," said the old .farmer-father, with tears in his eyes, as he stood before the sweet young elephant and the man who wished to make her his wife. She laid the jaw of her blushing face upon her dear dad's quivering shoulder. "You must take good care of my wee birdling, Jack," continued the old man, in broken tones. "Remember that she's been raised kind o' tender-like. Two acres a day's all I ever asked, iter. ?o plough, and an acre a day u' corn is all she's used to hoeing. She kin do light work—sich as ma kin' fences an' diggiu' ditches—but she ain't used to reg'lar farm work, an' you mustn't ask too much of her. It's hard for her old dad to give up his little sunshine, ..lack: he'll have to chap his own firewood now, an' dig up his own 'taters. But go, birdie, go, an' may you find a happy nest!"

"Ma, said the newspaper mans son, "I know why editors call themselves •'we,'" "Why V "So'o the man that doesn't like the article will think there- are too many for him to tackle."