ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION.
A country landowner, having set a number of ferns which he wished preserved from thieves/had posted over his estate, adjoining the public- common, the following notice : "Eeware ! Polypodiums and Scolopendriums set here." (The Latin names of two of the ferns.) And these proved very disturbing to the local villagers. His feelings, however, may be imagined when an old-fashioned farmer gravely asked him, as chairman of the parish council meeting, whether " h<- was not breaking the law by setting such terrible engines as them 'ere things?"
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2181, 5 November 1897, Page 4
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88ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2181, 5 November 1897, Page 4
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