TO OLD IDENTITY. (Per favour Editor Waikato Times)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 664, 22 August 1876, Page 3

TO OLD IDENTITY. (Per favour Editor Waikato Times)

D»ar old Un,— Yours to band, glnd to we you stick up for that old cow of your«, she doe§ not «ive you any trouble and if she gets in and Heatroys your ne ghhours girden* after they hare boen fools rnougli to try to grow vegetables to keep tbeir farailite, ins fad of loofing about With their hand* in thmr pookct* or sperding Ibeir spire tioxjat nn Hotel, what u tlmfc to y«uf you don't • wa»te' your time gardening so jou can afford to laugh at othtr j eople'a trouble that do. liitnrted gardening • few nunths «nee, nnd I hate iiad a fine time of it. Workrd hnrd and plaited pens, beans, &c, nod went to bed, whun I get up next morning my neighbonr»' fowls lmd them a) I ' planted' and had goo 1 ' crops.' I didn't •<iy anything but raked o»er and planted again, next morning, do, do. Thinks I, ibis i* getting monotonous, so I waned till night and plnntod (with the aid of s latitl oru) after the fowls hud gone to roost and got up at Hrf the next morning ju-t in time to w« ihf» old cock on the war ,uiib. but he didu't, come in that morning.

I 111 tins until tlieptas «te, were well uj>, I biking ih- inorui'iK *.l«ift, ond tlio M.b and yoMiu t ,n.'t taking the d*y, it bcinj briqxt and «a<- m , bc«oro the sun tot in my f hift wa§ tbe nicest. lou rc#bmber lait Monday night was not i a m; u w, s the night t-e bo* sto. d on In. p.ouH on >i hijfket ol c . Well, I had jmt got .flFto fleep boom fullp w.nn, whpn 1 wasavsokobj Mrs T poking me i • t io ribs and suiting ou' Ticlle, Tu-k'p W i, wtiHl's up Mrs T, says I, fXjjpHi « thit one of the chi.drcn " had suddenlj taken ti.t« raeasl.'s. • Cows,' . iys she. i wa* out of brd nke a shot (the eh inc;p of temperaiue wa-ao au.lcen, 1 believe Inn. t lmvo hissed) and j.u lmg o.i mj- House.-, bolter! out to sco lint old cow of joun finishing my pen-. Some people wou u lave sworn. I didn'f. I was r eiA.-ctly •c-ool'iDdaj MraT suid when Igotintu bed again. But all this ii nothing to you, o'd 'un, \ our live and lot lire muxin is right, then fore 'et your neighbour* pro\r yetrel-nhl«-s so that your oir oa-i live on them, and as you are a poor m m and can't iffonl to spend either money or labour u> *rju ing food for bi-r she must live on cl-aiity. I am gift 1 to se-* yon rip it into the new blood, keep thut up and go on in the old * tin por' style. Kiti'l respects to the old cow.— Youra Tobt Ticklk.