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14 Jun 1884
NEWTON-STEWART
FAIR PLAY

Two boys were engaged to watch cattle for an Irish dealer at the Newton-Stewart Market on Friday, After some hours' duty the cattle were sold to a farmer. The latter, believing they were dear, asked for a luckpenny, "Shure," said the dealer, "I have bestowed them." "Weel, weel," said the farmer, " yer the hardest dealer I ha'e come across; tae what part o' Ireland dae ye belang?" Dealer—"County Down." Another Irishman aside replied, " From where they shoot the landlords." (Exit farmer.) The boys, one a little older than the other, having fulfilled the duties, to which they had been engaged, stepped for-ward to have a settlement. The younger boy observed he was not paid equal to his senior, and stepping back with an air of indignation, reminded the dealer they were both engaged together, the duty and time being equally the same. Then bursting into tear from disappointment and anger, raised a stick above the head of the dealer, and assured him he would let him have it if he did not equalise matters. The dealer reluctantly ...

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