LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 40, 1 September 1900, Page 4

LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.

A New York gentleman who had not been out of tho city met a friend whom he had not seen for some time. " Have you been sick ?" " No, of course not. I have just returned from ray vacation in the country." " You must have had a nice time. You look as if you had mosquitoes three timos a Jay." " Oh, yes, we had them rogu« larly." " I suppose you bad lots of fresh butter and eggs while you were in the country ?" "The butter wq got wa<? strong enough to resent an insult, but as we didn't have much else to eafc it went very well with the petrified ears of corn. As we did not bring any diamond drills with us wie gave up the idea of partaking iof the -i spring chicken." ' " How did you, like the coffee you got in the country ?" u It was like the quality cr mot'cy Shakespeare speaks of — it was not: strained." " Didn't you get nice light rolls ; for breakfast ?" "We had rolls, but I didn't eat any- I read once that a spider eaU four times his weight for breakfast. As I didn't desire to enter into competition with the/ spider I didn't eat any of the light rolls. Besides, - the cockroaches were very versatile in the farmhouse where I was board' ; ing. They appeared like actoi'3, & i different rolls <*very day." * " I suppose the house where yoo j stopped was crowded with guests ?' j " It was crowded, but not with ■. guests; however, I could have stood the other annoyances if I had only got something fit to eat occasionally' r I tell you a man never knows vfbsi a vast amount of wear and tear bis ? stomach will go through until hs has been out in the country a week or so to recuperate. I lost 251k , I'm on my way to frhe doctor's to, get a tonic that will build up ntf system,"