CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.
A DIALOGUE. A gkntlkman', recently connected with one of our leading auctioneering tinny, and who even now does a little iu the stock agency line, was sitting on the rail not quite a hundred miles from our Hamilton sale yard. A settler approached him, and in the anxious hesitatiag manner so characteristic of settlers, enquired, " What are good half-bred owes and lambs fetching juat now?" "Well," said thu agent, "if thoy are good, say about 13s to los the couple. , ' "Not iiioreV "No; anil they must liavs sound teeth to fetch that." After a pause the agent continued : " By thu way, have you many for sale?' , " For sale," replied tho settler, "No; I am wanting to buy." "Oh, indeed !" said the agent, in n somewhat higher tone, "That i'j ii very different affair, you will scarcely get any at all; indeed, I. should think it wouid be lmpousiblo to buy such s-htsep as you want under at ltyist lH.s." " Strange," munnmvd the settler aa ho walked away, " ll.nv stock do rise, and fall."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3021, 24 November 1891, Page 2
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176CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3021, 24 November 1891, Page 2
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