If the farmer should gain anything by the protection afforded to pigs and tallow (eays the "Mataura Ensign") we wish him joy, for a great many of his agricultural implements will be 10 per cent' dearer.i The child will be born in a bed that has paid 10 per cent; -washed with protected soap; wrapped in shawls that have paid 20 per cent; suck from a bottle that has paid 15 per cent; fed with arrowroot that has ,paid Id per ll>; wheoled in a perambulator that lias paid 15 per cont, and made wondrous fine with trimmings that have paid 17i per cent. He will go to school in protectflg&othes and smash windows that in the place at 3s per sash above the foreign price. He wil learn his multiplication table by protected candle-light, and burn his protected boots at a protected fire. He will ride on a protected and beta protected hat that he'll a fence of protected barbed wire. He will daub his protected coat against/nrotected paint on the protected door. will eat his protected -fish with a protected fork off a protected-plate. He will look at his protected watch through his protected spectacles, and vow it's time to go to his lodge. He will drink taxed spirits out of taxed glasses, and be carried by servants—in whom alone there is free-trade-to a protected buggy, which ha ' will presently upset and break his unprotected neck. A nominated coroner with a jury' ot unemployed will study his case and write a verdict on unprotected paper. I He will then be put. in a coffin and covered with protected material, lowered I into the grave with protected ropes, and . 1 covered with a protected sho'vekto be '- 1 protected from Protection for ev JP NaTUKI IS ONE VAST OAEDEN for Mutiliza ■tionof scienca, audits products, culled by skilfu hinds, eaa be readily applied to medicinal pu-. pem Tfeemmwtikrubfthat grows by the hath a virtue thit, in'telWly comwfenai^proper ti«i C of• celebrated Juniper-berry, but it remained t<, one •sriguml conception, «o to extract, and pound it* marvellous essences, as to generate that iquallyjradmu reeteaH^knoWri Somnji' 8
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2049, 23 July 1885, Page 2
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