Two on a Farm
WONDER to how many 4YA listeners the short story The Pain would be likely to appeal? The story is from the book The Little Karoo, by Pauline Smith, and concerns two old people, husband and wife, on a farm; the old woman has a pain in her side, and the husband takes her to the new hospital in their bullock-waggon. She is not cured, and in a short time he takes her from the hospital stealthily by night and they drive back to their beloved farm. This is not a story, merely an incident, told in a brief span and with a minimum of words; but in effect it is a whole novel. The characters of the gentle, tired, uncomplaining old couple shine from. the story with a quiet radiance, the country through which they travel so many unavailing miles is painted in true colours, the cumulative devotion of years lived together, the old people’s love of their home and property are depicted as surely as though the writer had had thousands of pages to devote to them. The Little Karoo is a book which I know by title only, and this was my first introduction to its author. This BBC presentation of part of it makes me wish to read more.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 9
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216Two on a Farm New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 9
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