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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 9 (January 1, 1930)

Daylight-Slaving and the Curse of the Core

Daylight-Slaving and the Curse of the Core.

But fully to digest the spirit of this dicephalous diffusion, it is necessary to escalate retrospectively to the earliest instance of daylight-slaving, consequent on Uncle Adam's paucity of perception in failing to swallow the core. The occasion, besides establishing the fact that it was the serpent who first slipped over the slogan “Eat More Fruit,” proved to be an ominous omen to man, who on account of Adam's failure to comply with the Orchard Act, was obliged to hitch up his hosiery and handle a hoe. Protestingly he proceeded to dig Old Man Earth in the ribs until he in his turn realised the necessity of hoisting his “holeproofs” and attending to his greengroceries, with the result that man plucked from his bosom herbaceous haberdashery both edible and elegant.

From this moment man experienced the psychological solecism, “Pride of Place,” and out of his uppishness, combined with this access of agricultural activity, there sprang towns, like corns on the cuticle of cultivation, or excrescences on the hands of husbandry, thus proving that the Town and Country are really one, the town being merely the country with its hat on.

To quote the quips of Barnyard Stripling, the pastoral poet:— Each is least and both are best, And ever the twain shall meet.