The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a
Healthiness
Healthiness.
There is no more healthy climate in the world than that of New Zealand. We have neither Arctic winter nor tropic heat, just cold enough to brace up a healthy Englishman, and just heat enough to ripen the corn and make the cattle seek the shade at harvest time. Not a feature is wanting to reproduce the healthy English life
page breakthat his made England what she is. John Barleycorn gives as mild a juice in New Zealand as ever he did in England, and you can rear as stalwart sons as ever drew the bow of yew, and fit to stand as Friar Tuck before King Richard's cuff.