A ploughman “frae the bills o’ Fife,” called Sandy, whose education was finished before the days of the compulsory clause,has a habit of using tlie wrong word. When the Agi'.cultural Society's show was at Stirling, Sandy went to sec it. Meeting his master in the “bow-yard, bo was asked by that gentleman if be had seen the new sheaf-binder. Sandy replied that he bad not, and bis master volunteered to show it to him. The machine was in motion, and, as the sheaf was txmnd and tossed aside, Sandy was asked what he thought of it. ‘‘Quid keep me, sir,” ho replied, •‘the dimensions o’ man are something awfu’ I” SSI
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2090, 8 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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