England Revisited
S a boy in England, the old pioneer had always believed his own country to be up-to-date in its methods, but the sight of a local shearing in progress showed that the date they were up to was somewhere about the time of Abraham. On a stool in a picturesque barn sat an ancient greybeard wielding an antiquated pair of hand-shears. To him the sheep were driven, one by one, from the meadow. This expert had been known to shear as many as 40 sheep in a day. As the strenuous activity of a warm December day in a New Zealand shed, with the machines whirring and the shearers working with the precision of machines-as that picture of speed and efficiency flashed upon the inward eye of the old pioneer, he suddenly realised that it was he himself who had changed. He didn’t fit in to the rigid framework of the English picture. His easy-going friendliness with what his relatives still spoke of as "the lower classes" was viewed by them with disapproval. In short, he found to his surprise, that he was not, as he had fancied himself, an Englishman who had made his home in the colonies, but a
Colénial, who was visiting an unfamiliar England.-("Death Comes to a Pioneer," Miss Cecil Hull, 2YA, June 9.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 157, 26 June 1942, Page 2
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