RUNNING TO SEED.
Newly wed, very happy, utterly inexperienced, and really rather ignorant —they were all these things. And they had a new house, with a little garden at the back, of which— though neither of them knew much of matters horticultural—they were both inordinately proud. "Dolly," he cried, bursting into the house one afternoon, "there's some asparagus just ready for eating. Cornel Ton shall gather the first fruits from our garden." There was nothing she would like to have done more. But, alas! asparagus gathering was not one of her strong points. In fact, she didn't even know what the stuff looked like in its natural state. So, anxious not to "give herself away," she decided to be cautious. "No, John," she said; "yow'd better do the cutting. "You're tallter than I wn.ru hold the ladder 1" .
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Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 330, 14 July 1914, Page 6
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