THE HUSBANDMAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19850, 20 January 1920, Page 4

THE HUSBANDMAN.

(By WALT MASON.)

Ihc fanner milks the lowing kiuc, and carries grape juice to l lie kind of dope they like; he starts to work ere break of day, and plugs along till dusk is gray, and hasn’t time to strike. He-stands in need of shorter hours, more lime to sleep in cosy bowvis, more time to rest and rend; hut bo can bear the horses neigh for bundles of refreshing bay, the mules for odder plead. The old grey marc is beastly sick, tho colic makes her roll and kick, and stand upon her head ■ and so he nurses her all night milil Mies tooling well and right, instead |'l being dead, lie has to bunt a missing sow, or saw the anllers Irom a <ow. 50 H ' le von i, In,ok again; bo lias to crawl beneath a crib' mid spoil bis and bis bib, to find setifnhen Ibe fanner has more cause to strike than Jonathan and Pete ami Mike, who in Hie cities live; but be lias many .bores in view, and walk-out, stunts would never tin—no profiT would they give. 15m if the farmer struck ab, me! Ob. where in hliteen would we be, and where would we get off: I belt' .1 be no bacon ami no beaus. m> Amir or meal or lml|ifiii greens no skim milk in the trough, ff e'er the farmers organise, and strike as strike the other gff.vs, there'll be a frightful dearth; and we’ll fold up our weary limbs, and heave n sigh and close our Mims' and just tall oil the earth.

Ihrec hundred children were at ihei ■ studies at the parochial school of the Church ol Our Lady of Good Counsel nrooklyn, England, when a stray dug. snapping and harking viciously,, ran irom the mvoH into ono of tlie rormis containing ihinv-livo pupil* \ scene cf confusion followed, and twelve ot the dnldron were bit-ton hv tho dog. A policeman pursued the animai up and down stairs in tho school lar did not try to shoot- it for fear of hit tmg one- of tho children. The school hre alarm was sounded to get the ehddren n. othc- class rooms together and into the street •ont- of the wav of the ['"fy captured and taken o the Kalph Avenue Station lor •xanunation.