WITH APOLOGIES TO LEWIS CARROLL.
Sir,— Encouraged by the, fatherly interest taken in us by Mr. T. F. Martin, and the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, I enclose our modest view of the situation. With apologies to Lewis Carroll.—l am, et^ EEpFARMER
Motueka, August 16. I Tho lawyer and the merchant were walking" band in hand; They laughed like anything to see Their mortgage on the land, if we can keep them overdue, They said, it would indeed be grapdl “The time has come,” the merchant
said, “To talk of many things: Of butter, wool, and farmers’ banks And all their different rings. And why the pi ice of land has dropped And why tho lawyer sings.”
“We weep for you,” the lawyer said, “We deeply sympathise,” As with a pen he quickly wrote P.N.’s of larger size. Holding a second mortgage up Before their startled eyes. “O farmers dear,” the merchant said, ‘You’ve had a lovely run Of interest, work, and mortgages, There’s scarcely anyone Who doesn’t owe us all he’s got; Shall we count up the sum 1” Tho fanners answered never a word — They all of them were Bung. ’ —SHEEPFARMER.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 288, 22 August 1923, Page 9
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