A Highland farmer had agreed to deliver twenty hens to the local market. Only nineteen, .however, were sent, and it was almost evening before the twentieth bird was brought in by the farmer. "Man." said the butcher, “you're late with this one!" “Aye." agreed the other, "but. ye see. she didna lay until this afternoon."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 6
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