One Step More And-!
“Long life to you, sir,” said Paddy the other day to an Irish landlord’s agent of the conventional type, upon the occasion of his second visit to the property. “ Why do you say that ?” asked the astonished agent, who was not conscious of having done anything to earn the blessings of the poor. “ Well, sir,” said the peasant, “ since I first knew the place, the gentlemen they send down to collect the rent have been getting harder and worse, and now that your honour is in it, may the Lord preserve you, for if any accident were to happen to you, ’tis the devil himself they would be putting over us.”
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Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1034, 15 January 1887, Page 3
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115One Step More And-! Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1034, 15 January 1887, Page 3
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