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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Scandal lovers in England are termed “ gohemouches.” We have all heard of a racehorse training off after being asked to do too much,but the following tale, picked up at a country race meeting in the West of England, shows that other things beside horses are liable to suffer from the same cause. “ I bad a very good telescope myself once,’’said an agriculturist, as he surveyed with envy the “ swells” looking through their binoculars—“asgood a telescope as a man need wish to have; there —l’ve got one now, but be ain’t no use ! I could see a church clock and tell the time when ’twore ten mile off, easy ; but a silly follow he borrowed ’un, and he tried to see the church clock when ’twore twenty mile off, and there he must a’ strained the poor thing all to pieces—haiu’t been a bit of use since! ”