"PROGRESS" WOOL-GATHERING
TO THIC flltt'Oli. Slit, —If "Progress"' letter of the 2oth ult. is intended as a joke, it is not so bad. tie remiuds ma of a. half-witted peddler 1 know in tlm Oid Country who, when bias-; was over-buidened, took the load upon his own sh"uldurs and mounterl the ass, shouting " Yer a' unlit now, Neddy; eet up yer laxy brute." What a capital curloon it would imiko to have the N.-w Zealand firmer represented as tin uss with Income-tax, Proper}"- ax, Customs duties and fsii)glr-t>s on t. p, with "Pnwros"" astiide 'all, spuriiog sway with his finger at his nose and shouting, " You're a' licht now, pet up )ou bruto you." The .Now Zealand farni r would bo an ass indeed if lie submits to bo burdened by half-witted idiots who attempt to prove that the whole is less than the half, "r a hundred pound is easier pai l than fifty, deceiving' themselves and trying to deceive ot!irit'u,--i al>). rU>.. T. M.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2887, 15 January 1891, Page 2
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166"PROGRESS" WOOL-GATHERING Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2887, 15 January 1891, Page 2
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