A CONTRAST.
(To th« Editor of the Oamaku Times. ) Sir, — The enclosed is cut out of tbe "Scotsman." I send it to you because 1 think it well worth publishing in the Times. It will certainly be perused with interest by a large portion of your readers who were once partakers of the struggles and the sorrows that were so graphically and amusingly related at Davidson's Mains. Not many, I dare say, of the farm servants here could speak such logical sense as Jamie Thomson, or furnish such racy specimens of Doric humor and 'nervous sentiment as Tarn Ewing ; and probably such a fact ; . ill not diminish the feeling of thankfulness which the contrast of their circumstances is sure to evoke. The Otago farm servant works 48 hours during the week, gets an opportunity three times a-day of cramming himself with beef and mutton and wheaten bread, and is paid at the rate of £65 per annum ; whereas, his confrere in Scotland has to hap-Uapandloitp at it fiom half-past four in the morning till nine in the evening for less than half his wages, and to be content besides to say grace over " sour dook half mixed wi' water." Cauld Kail. Gardencleugh, 14th April. *
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North Otago Times, Volume VI, Issue 113, 19 April 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)
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204A CONTRAST. North Otago Times, Volume VI, Issue 113, 19 April 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)
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