RURAL ANECDOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1277, 13 January 1883, Page 2

RURAL ANECDOTES.

;■ "Nancy, .why don't ypu'wear the over-shoes I gave you this wet' clayf "And indeed, 'ma'am, saving your presence, it's long sorry I'd be to put them purty shinin' things on a day like this, to trail'them through the muddy slavery of'them roads; sure, isn't it keeping them for the fine weather I am." ■■ There is a story told of a certain young tradesman inthe mill? and dairy produce business in,one of, .qur tyrge cities, who, with the' determination of giving his sweetheart a treat,, put one of the delivery cart horses in a hired buggy, and with his betrothed started pn,a pleasure, trip, through the cityHe had not the animal a greater distance than a few hundred yards when it 1 stopped; • The ! young>!rhan flogged, the lady coaxed, .but all to no purpose. It suddenly occurred to the driver that the house , opposite which the animal had stopped was 'that -of a customer, A bright thought came to him, and he called out: " Milk ho I" three times, and the animal frisked'its tail and started ..A few yards further on and there was another stoppage, and the same artifice had to .be used, and so on till the end of a driyejthat .did,not,^mispress .the, future bride as" too awfully moe,"" ' * j. Sceneßailway"; Station" in Cambridgeshire.—Young rustic, of'about 20, from Perns, walking deliberately up. tothe book stall, and, addressing the man-'iff chai-ge : (in'- his : ioffice), says: ~ " Ticket ' ' please,'? Gbv'iior, to-—Being politely:-.requested to apply a little farther down the platform he goes, and, sees some small .tied to a puteideran- office .door, jcoolly to , the bookstall, and, with his face beamfing with satisfrctipp, asks" How much, Guv'norf