HER REASON
Jano was a good servant, but she had a decided objection to grilling steak thoroughly. After sending to table an example more glaring than usual, her mistress summoned her, Jane appeared wearing an air of injured innocence. “Will you kindly remove this piece of raw meat," said her mistress. “Yes, mum," said Jane. “I knew I- should have trouble with that steak, mum," she added. “The butcher said it was part of the most obstinate animal he had ever known. He said it would never enter a field through the gate in the ordinary way, always jumped over the hedge ; and when at last it was taken to tho slaughterhouse it refused to lie killed in the usual manner, but actually lay down and died. How could Ibe expected to tame such an unmanageable brute as that, mum ?" And Jane then left the room with her nose at an angle of forty-five degrees.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 2
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