COMPLETELY OUTWITTED

Ohinemuri Gazette, Issue 3941, 8 July 1918, Page 4

COMPLETELY OUTWITTED

Two large orchards, side by side brought much proilt to Farmer Tur mutj and much trouble, for tJu orchards were considered fair game bj -tie boys of the village, and twr orchards are harder to watch than one. One day, looking from one orchard to the other, Turinut saw a small boy shin down a tree, and uttering a word of warning to another imp still up •rnong the apples, ran off. Turmut reached that tree in record time.

"Got yer this time!" he, roared to til© boy almost hidden among the leaves. "Come Down!"

Getting no answer, and not being in a hurry, he sat down and waited. Time passed, and still lie waited, until a servant brought him a note that had just been dropped through the letter-box. He did not wait after he bad read it, as follows:

"Some people 'as apples, some 'as Bence. You bin woU'hin' a pair of trowsis stuffed with straw, and we bin jjettin' your apples from the other orchard. Great victory for sence!"