Good feeding in harvest time is not uncommon in our day, according to the testimony of Eichard Jeffries. Here ia the record he preserves of an old Wiltshire labourer's efforts at a harvest supper:—"Fust I had a plate of rust beef, then a plate of boiled mutton, then a plate of boiled beef, then a plate of rust mutton; last bacon. 1 fund I couldn't got on at all wi' the pudding, but when the cheese and the salid came, didn't I pitch into that I"
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1915, Page 2
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86Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1915, Page 2
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