NOBBLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 305, 24 December 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)

NOBBLES.

No xx-olidcr poor Nobbles xvas tired: for even a donkey xvill get tired if lie has had a long way lo go, with n great big-load of carrots to pull behind him. You could alxvays tell when Nobbles was very tired, be cause his left ear u<cA to droop down. That was ..no of I Inodd things about bin,... the other ear never did droop. Put however tired Nobbles was, be was „ever 100 tired to ~;..,. He would eat everything I ho.v put i,,,,,' bis food bag. and more, if lie could gel it. That was how he fell into a -crape. 11in* iiiurimig. very early, long before mix of us wore up. Nobbles bad lake, „ big load of carrots t,, invent Harden Market. And he was very tired; but ho wasn't too tired in bo voiv hungry, liven when he had finished all the food ,v the bag. be was -till htinorv. So when !„■ bad finished lb" la-l mouthful, be i urnod round to -co if I hero xvas a hayrick .„■ anything to nibble al -. because ,„ ~.,,, ~.,,..' ,„' ,1,,. world he came from. bavrieks were ~uitc imon obj sof ihe count rv. Hut in ('-.vent Garden Market there don't happen to be any, nor ,-vcn in London, which is next door to the market, only larger. I'.ut Nobbles saw what xvas quite as eood :,s a hayrick. and more juicy; a ,'art fn!; of carrots: They were' the very carrots he had pulled up all the wav from the country that morning, an,) as hi« master had taken him out of the shafts to give him his breakfast he could do xvhat be liked. And he did. lie xvent right up to those carrots and bit olf the end of one. It tasted so good that be tricl another, and another, and another 1 At last he had nibbled off