HE DIDN'T TAKE A FENCE.
More legitimate was the stratagem of ft certain genteman living in tho country, whose neighbour's hens wero continually crossing the boundary and scratching up his garden. Finding that a deaf ear was turned to all hi 3 complaints, he changed his tactics, and bogan to send his neighbour a dozen eggs every two or three days, saying that the neighbours hens had laid them. After a while the ingenious gentleman sent no more eggg. The new fenca he had ulamoured for was immediately put up.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10301, 7 May 1895, Page 2
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90HE DIDN'T TAKE A FENCE. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10301, 7 May 1895, Page 2
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