A LITTLE PLOT.
"Korea has granted Russia a 99 veers' lease of two hundred acres at Yongampa." — News item. When a farm-er wants a peaceful life,
He takes a look around To fiudr a patch about two hundred acres; ■Then spends his years of usefulness
In digging up the ground, And stacking corn or planting seed potatoes. He takes his weekly paper up ; - (YVhere news is .piping hot) To learn of European complications; And reads that in Yongampa
Russia's bargained for a plot Adjacent to Korean railway stations. The farmer breads a rival
In the markets year by year (The thought oE such a thing is simply charm' *mg), But Europe knows 'twill pay to have Its trained battalions ner.r, "When Russia turns her grizzly paws to farming, -J. M.
Te Kaluga, Dunedin, August, 1903.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2579, 19 August 1903, Page 69
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135A LITTLE PLOT. Otago Witness, Issue 2579, 19 August 1903, Page 69
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