Varieties.
+. The ordinary mode of churning in Chili is to put the milk in a ekin — usually a dog-skin — tie it to a donkey, mount a boy on him, with rowels to his spurs about the length of the animal's ears, and then run the animal four-mile heats.
A farmer, having lost •ome ducks, was asked by the counsel for the prisoner accused, of stealing them to describe their peculiarity. After he had done so, the counsel remarked, " They can'l< be such a rare breed, as I have some like them in my yard." •' That's very likely," replied the farmer, " these are not the only ducks of the same sort I have had stolen lately."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 431, 1 October 1869, Page 3
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115Varieties. Star (Christchurch), Issue 431, 1 October 1869, Page 3
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