OLD JACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1932, Page 6

OLD JACK.

I envy old ■Tack. J. believe Hint it' you hermetically sealed him in a cell with stone walls six foot thick he could tell you of the wind and the weather. I believe if you gave him a, grilled mutton chop he could take, you to the paddock it was reared in. I believe if you took him ten thousand feet up in a balloon lie would look over the side and tell you one of them hoggets w;',s lame. I believe if he passed you in a city street ho could tell by the soles of your boots what is wrong' with your farm. I envy old Jack. I like old Jack. He lives with his horse and his dog*. He lives alone in the niountaiiin. Alone with the bush and the tussock and the sun and the snow. I know of no one less lonely. Never a printed page does be see. his bookease is out of doors and on its shelves arc thickest volumes of the closest type. I know of few so well read. His eyes are steady in their wrinkled frames. I like'old Jack. —G. A. THOMAS. ,