First Catch your Hare.
"Ha ! ha !" cried the farmer, li at last I've got you," and he took up a cudgel an I ran towards his great apple tree. A small boy was perched in it enjoying the apples. " Come down," roared the farmer. "Come up I" cried the boy, making a rude gesture by placing his thumb to his nose and extending his fingers. "I'll beat you to a mummy," cried the farmer. " You'll have to catch me first," said the boy, plucking another apple. " Wait until I get a ladder," screamed the farmer, now beside himself, and he turned and ran to the farm-house at his best speed. Then the boy quietly descended and skipped across the fields. When the farmer arrived at the tree, puffing and gasping for breath, he stared. " I never thought of that," he muttered in a crestfallen way. " What a fool I am. If I'd stayed by the tree I should surely have caught him. This only shows that before you can make your sonp you must firat catch your hare.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1415, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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178First Catch your Hare. Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1415, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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