COUNTRY WIT.
Tho poet Coleridge was once taken in nicely. His horse had lost a shoe, aud as' it waa being replaced by a Somerset blacksmith he asked the time. "I'll tell 'cc presently, sir," said the man. Then he lifted a hind foot of the horse, and. looking across it attentively, said, "Half-past eloveu." "How do you know?" asked (Joleridgo. "Do 'cc think I have shod horses all my life and don't know by sign what time it is?" Tug poot went away puzzled, but roturned in the evening aud offered the blacksmith a shilling to show him bow he could tell tho time by a horse's hoof. "Just you get off your horse, sir. JNow do'ee «toop down aud look through the hole in you pollard ash, and you'll see the church clock !"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9596, 7 February 1910, Page 3
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135COUNTRY WIT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9596, 7 February 1910, Page 3
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