BOY ON THE OX.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2191, 24 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOY ON THE OX.

Oxev is a very slow anniraal. They are good to break ground up. I would rather have horses if they didn't have kollick, which they say is wind kollected in a bunch, which makes it more dangerous for to keep horses than an ox. If there was no horses the people would have to wheal thara wood on whealbarrows. It would take them two or three days to wheal a cord a mile, Cowb is useful to. I have herd sura say if they had to be tother or an ox they would be a cow. But I think when it comes to have their tits pulled of a cold morning they would wish they wasn't, for oxen don't generally have to raise cays. If I had to be enny I would rather be a heffar. But if I cudent be a heffar, and had to be both, I wood be an ox.

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