Occupations of Country Girls.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10783, 3 June 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Occupations of Country Girls.

Tho country girl is up betimes, awakened by the sunshine, and the exuberant joy of the birds in the spring and summer mornings, or by the desire to see what the weather is like, what- chance of a good run with the hounds if it is winter time; or if it 's not a hunting morning, and the wicked little red fox is not to be chased, what prospect there is of skating, real skat:ing 011 a wide expanse of ice on the ponds or on the moor that has been flooded, not round and round in the limited space of a rink or artificial skating ground. Or perchance it is hockey day, says "Hearth and Home," and so the hours in the early part of the day are spent in visits to any sick ones 'there may be in the village, carrying to the sufferers dainty nourishment, perhaps made with her own hands under tne direction of the old cook who governs the kitchen.