THAT PINE.
TO THIS EDITOR.
Sin,—l am sure the residents in Central Qtago will explode with Homeric laughter, not with, but at " Civis," over his rehash of the old, old jest about my carrying coals to Newcastle ; or (which is much the same thing), fruit to the fruit-growing districts of the interior when with the. County Railway Commissioners. This yarn is a veritable fossil and of dubious origin. The " pine "is a novelty, I admit. I never heard of it before, and, I assure you, I never saw it. After all, is there any real fun in—ahem .'—stories, be they ever so splcndidc mendax ?—I am, &c, Pa-Taotara, January 26. Vincent Pyke.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9336, 29 January 1892, Page 3
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112THAT PINE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 9336, 29 January 1892, Page 3
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