DANGER OF IGNORANCE
Since farming has become such a live issue at by-elections, candidates will “brush-up” their knowledge of country life. The danger of ignorance in that connection was discovered by a country magistrate when soliciting the vote of a man he had sent to gaol for poaching. “Come,” he pleaded, “that little affair was nothing much; you should let bygones be bygones.” ‘“Twasn’t your sending me to quod
put me against you,” replied the man, “but you said I’d taken a rabbit when it was a hare, and I reckon the man as don't know the difference ain’t fit for Parliament.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 10
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102DANGER OF IGNORANCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 10
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