The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-22 00:00:00

THE TWO GARDENERS.

Ben (aside) Plieugh ! Ain't he • pegging away I (Puff!
puff!) Now I call this pertikler good fun.
, Ab, William, my vigorous woodman, you'll have • 'UN
beck ere you,, done !
Worry eager to collar my crib, you was, William. You've
does It no doubt ;
But aren't you beginning to feel a bit sorry you got me
chucked out I
Sunday best and pipe on the quiet, like this now, is really
not lad.
Lao! ain't he a-laying about him! Don't envy you,
William, my lad. (Puffs complaisantly/
William (aside, ding desperately) Oh, blarm that
there Ben I fishes loft me • regular beast of • job.
Bat there, though he's smart in his chat, ho was always
the laziest Lib.
He keep • bir garden in order I Lao bites yer, my dear
Mr. Bull!
Where's the ale of • chap who won't dig, and the weeds
never troubles to pull
Ben (aside). Ah ! Will's getting waxy, I fear. Pull
puff!) Doesn't seem to know where Li begin.
I'll wader a trifle his shirt is beginning to stick to his
skin.
Wire in, my dear Will ! What with weeds, cloddy soil,
rambling roots, and the rest,
You'll find that to put things all ship-shape will pat all
your power to the test
(Aloud). Well, William my pippin, how goes it by this
time I
William (pausing and mopping). Hallo ! are you there!
Ben. Thought I'd give you • friendly look-in, as I
chanced to be (puff !puff 0 taking the sir.
William (grimly). You look up to the nines, I must say.
Sunday best, I suppose I
Ben (airily). Ah, jest so.
Relying my holiday grettly. A pipe and • stroll, don't
yer know
You look • bit fagged like and heated, my William, and
yet, after all,
You dint seem to be making much headway, now do
you?
William (indignantly). Well, Bea. Ido call
That remark most owdacious. Why, hang it, you left
things in such a rile mess,
That—
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ite72.- Well, you were sweet on the job. and I'm sere,
mate, I wish you moms.
I was just in the midst of it like, you were in such •
hurry, you .se;
With, little more time I'd hare made a good job of it.
William (contemptuously). Addled..
Just look at the stases and the stumps, ill-kept pathways
andeclod•cumbsred beds.
The rubbish =:=gise of brushwood, the flowers all
hanging
The weeds diff and staring I Good Lord I there is work
for a whole peg of men.
You never tried doming or pruning. Such work isn't
Hun uhreur:fi&l!ea.Walli well, you can now try your hand.
am quite sure you,. got plenty of t als ;
That's t, bend your bu& to it, William : its booed to
111 it MOIL
A Asiet and • ramble are mere to my mind than a spells
or a pick;
11l toddle • little bit further. To! Is I [Strolls off.
William (digging furiously). He's the nerve of Old
Nick I
(Left hard at it. —Poach.

THE CANTERBURY PETITION.
TWO 10111W4UII$ATD. _

This ease ers;'—'nesu”;;•-d- OW -Wednesday morning,
lad. and farther evidence given in support of the
stlttooe,a mum es to offers of money to vote for the
(un__ _ _

Mr. Eark......• (for the Roe E Gathorne thinly, and
Colonel Laurie) sad be should rely øu the point of &ironer.
Mr. Alfred Hardy deposed he gave instructions to carry
on the election in a pure manner. and had no know-
ledge of anything illegal Colonel Laurie made • similar
statement. Jos Denman said in reporting to the
Speaker they should express the strongest sympathy
with the respondents, on remount of unsubstantial charges of
penossel . In acciardance with the expressed opinion
of the Court, r. Murphy apologised for the charge
The Court declared the election void, and ordered the
costs of the petition to be paid by the reepondente,
except those expanses to which the respondents and their
relatives had been put to meet the personal charge