BLACKSMITHS' PLICES.
(To the Editor oftlie Tuapeka Times.)
Sir, As you are always- fin advocaio for fair play, I want tc see if you will try your powerful pen on the blacksmiths of Lawrence, to see if you can soften their hearts a little, and. persuade them to bring their prices down to the same as other places. My master tells me that he has to pay as much for a set of shoes now as he did five years back. Now really, Mr. Editor, it is too bad to see a poor old nag like me walking through the mud and stones bare-footed, and all because the blacksmiths charge stich enormously high prices. Master always gives me plenty to eat, and I really think that he would keep me shod too if the prices were not so very high, for my master and I have had some talk about it, although sometimes he gets on my back aud digs the spurs in to' my sides, and never thinks about the pain. A few days, ago, as I was walking through Tokomairiro, I asked master if he would get me shod now. He said no, that my feet were too hot with galloping on the hard metal. Recollecting this excuse when I was carrying him the other day through the creeks in Lawrence, I jogged his memory about my feet, and said they were cold now ; but his answer was that the price was too high ; so, between the hard metal and the hard price in Lawrence, I have to jog on bare-footed. I trust and hope that all my brother nags will take up their pen in my cause, and show the blacksmiths up to the public, as "Housewife" did the bakers on the bread question, and that they will get their rights as she didi Mr. Editor, one word more, if I have not encroached on your columns too far already. You can get a set of shdes properly put on, over all the province, for eight shillings, while in Lawrence yoti have to pay twelve shillings and- fourteen shillings. Now is that not a shame in a place like this, where everything is cub so fine? Hoping you will find space for this in your impartial columns,^ — I am, &c. , Bakbfooted OfD Nag.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 15 May 1869, Page 3
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386BLACKSMITHS' PLICES. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 15 May 1869, Page 3
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