His Birdling.
'It ain't ev'rybody I'd; trust raylittle gal to,' said old farmer Skinner to the love-lorn young granger who had become enamored with Miss Sally Skinner and wished to carry her from the loving care and shelter of the home neat. The little gal,' who was five feet (as she was at that moment), hid her happy, blushing face on the dear, fond old father's shoulder, and wept happy tears as he said to the deeply-moved Hover : 'You must take good keer of my wee birdling, Jack. Kicolleet that she's been raised kind o' tender like. Two acres a day is all I ever asked her to plow, and an acre of corn a-day is all she's used to hoeing. 'She kin do light work, sich as makiir* rail-fences, and digging postholes, and burning brush* and alii that, but ain't used to reg'kr farm work> ana you musn't ask too much of her. It's hard for her old lad to give his- little sunshine up. Hell have to split his own cord-wood and dig his own tatersnow. But go, birdie, and be happyi'
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 204, 21 May 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)
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184His Birdling. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 204, 21 May 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)
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