THE LAST STRAW
. Visitors to the Plough-Farm soon discovered it was an excellent place at which to stay. A-party who had been tho previous year had come again, bringing a friend or two with them, and a hammock to put up in tho orchard. They arrived during the fanner's absence at market, and on his return he found a merry pavly rigging up the hammock—a thing ho had never seen befoie. Aghast, he looked on. Then he called his wil'e aside. ■ * ( "Sally," ho whispered reproachfully, "tha' can let the best bedroom, the whole house" if tha likes—we can" sleep in the granary—but don't get slinging up sloop nets all over the farm. It looks greedy!'"
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 21
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115THE LAST STRAW Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 21
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