MORRINSVILLE.

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 796, 31 March 1894, Page 20

MORRINSVILLE.

This place waß made last and never finished. The population consists chiefly of chaw-bacons, who plod around, and after their tea of fat bacon and spuds, dress themselves up in their grey masher felfcs and No. 10 clodhoppers and congregate round the Btore. Turnips are the general theme of conversation, beyond which it does not seem to dawn on them that anything else exists. When any idea does strike them, it is not as a rule brilliant. After the store closes they visit the ' Nottingham Castle,' which with its popular landlord and assistants is conducted in a most orderly way. Here a few gifted with more brains, and who have forgotten more than the rest ever knew, indulge in a quiet game of crib ; but they are a very few, for the fact that the re&t, whose education has been sadly neglected, could not count as far as six, and to write their names would be a task. Fancy a chaw-bacon full of information ; yet there are some here who can tell you anything, from a change of Government to a rise and fall in the gum market. To sum up, there are a few smart men here ; the rest are quite as good behind a lump ot fat bacon, a team of horses, or a plough, but take them away from these and they must be indeed alone, and on the whole pity for their ignorance would be out of place, for where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise.