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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 19, Issue 26, 3 April 1908, Page 7

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- No sight could have been moT9 delightful to an agriculturist ttiafl* that which spread out before ¥axmer Grumbler's gaze on that beautiful morning. | Green pastures, over which sleek cattle wandered at their will, rolling fields of grain, bowing beneath the weight of their bursting heads,/ stretched out before him as far as the eye could see —and all this was “Surely, my friend,” remarked the' village curate, “you are fortunate this year ? You have surely nothing to complain of ?" , The farmer bore out bis name well, - and his answer was characteristic of him.

“No, sir,” he whined. "The crops be all right, but”—and here he nearly gqive way to* tears—“sich plenti- \ ful crops be turribfle wearin’ to the soil.”