AN APPLE TREE
Eden Philplotts tells the story of A Devonshire farmer who laid a “bite” of a wife. It was not without a certain. measure of relief that one morning he discovered her hanging from an apple tree in che orchard. He took another wife, who also proved a virago, and, amazing to relate, she also hanged herself, and from the same tree.
“Did he marry again,’’ asked tho friend of Mr Pliillpots.
“No,” replied Phillpots gravely, “but all the neighbouring farmers came round and took cuttings from that tree.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 15
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91AN APPLE TREE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 15
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