A Particular Girl.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3468, 25 March 1890, Page 2

A Particular Girl.

I; . Way back in the pioneer days, of • Miohigan, when log houses contained parlor, kitchen, bedroom, and all e iu one large /room, a couple of „ travellers put up for'the night .at aA, g cabin on the Grand :>River Plank j road, The family consisted of three '.j ij personSi father, mother,and 0 ' tho latter being 1G or 17 years old. There were two beds, in. the room, . jf and the old. woman fixed iip ■ s " ehalie-dowii" for tho traveller!!, j About 10 o'clock conversation was jj. exhausted, and after the family had n held a whispered consultation in a 3 corner, the old rtian advanced to the j travellers and said; , 0 "It's time, to tumble in,and I must ask yo to step out doors until the gal .. and tho old woman git under caver. ig I hain't modest, and tho old woman Ij don't care a skip, but the gal is a d leetlo particklar, and if ye'lljist step H out till I holler it'll be doin' her a - powerful favour."'' ; ; q The travellers waited outside the door until the old man "hollowed," ut and he further excused himself by remarking: " Yes, Marior's gittin' mighty t . porticklar, and I'll bet it won't bo three months afore she'll want shoes 0 and; stockins and a breast pin." p "Iwun't nuther!" answered J' " Well, I hope not," sighed the ]j old man. " Marier's a good girl, and ir it would just about useme'nthe old lS woman up if she got so proud tha^^ )[ she wanted soap every lime eliefj washed her hands, and ile for her . ! hair whenever alio : heard a . land-' j! looker holler I" ' Mr Bryce and the Laud Question. J? Mr John Bryco, addressing hiii constituents at Ohaupo the other day, and referring to the laud question, asked, J " Who owns the greater portion of the 1 land of the colony?" He said it was ' the money-lender who hold mortgages s over it. The land question bo mainij tained would never bo properly dealt with until tho question oMoann was • fairly grappled. He alluded to the » land-grabbing referred torn Sir George Grey's speech of last week, Now r everyone know that the large blocks ;of land werotaken upuuder Sir Goorgo Grey's land regulations of ISS3. , Wore Sir Georgo Groy's uttoraj*sa .those of repentance ? He hopea bo, c 1 He looked upon it that Sir George q Grey must have repented his action of , 1853, that the r,eraarks recently, mado wero an apology for such' actiqh.'l Thel l i gridir'onirig and land-grabbing' wm " ~ dorie under the regulations of 1853, . The samo was the case in 1886, 1887, and 1888, when larger areaß than „ heretofore wero takem,up,.by/.tho ~ landgrabberj V iTliiS ' great power of'wealth, which -now T. J showed itself in its grasp of the land, Tho real owners of the land sat bv s 'their firesides on the interest of their money, holding the real power of tho I 'lands, while tho farm settlers were the ' more tenants working for them, It !■ bad been said that wealih was worshipped; that as soon as a man . i increased his wealth he was put into < power and office, though he had not .increased his intelligence. This was .1 quite true, for in 1877 men of this - class were put into power, an 3 into Legislative Council in. batcher-rile would impress on them the vast 'dlK gers which the accumulation of wealth :: brought to tho people, for it really ' ■ (embraced the entire land question, as the men of wealth, owing to the V lending of their money, became tho real owners of the laud, :