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September 2013
WAIKATO FArmIng LIFesTyLes
Livestock
A dog’s tail…
Orl ina family ona farm
We was parked up aginst that water tank ona ridge above tha farmhouse an tuckin’ inter the sanniches that Boss’s gerlfrend Sharlene had cut frum last nites roast, wen hoo shood show up but that cat. Long-time readas of this kolumn no who I meen, eh?
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Hermin the Jermin. Sharlene’s bluddy big ginja cat, Dunno why its corled that, but probly cos it’s a nasty bugga. It wanded in frum a neighbors place which was a sharemilka that moved on in Jipsy Week an’ left it behind. No bluddy wonda too. That Hermin swiped me across me nose wen I hada sniff, an’ I’ve kept me distanse ever sinse. We gotta sort of stand-off tho. He duzzint bother me if I duzzint bother him eh? Well, it was a blimmin serprise to have Hermin out here ina paqddicks, so I give him a careful eye, and kept shearin’ Boss’s sanniches. Hermin juss sat ona top of a strainer post and started lickin’ his pores. Then Boss notissed. “Wot ya doin’ out here Cat,” he sed. Hermin jus’ looked at him. Boss sort looked thortful for a minnit, then he got his sell fone off tha bag ona quad, and pressed the mumba for tha homested. It rang and rang, “C’mon Dog,” seda Boss. Sharlene’s sposed to be home bakin a cake and
watchin’ afta Sophie. That’s Boss’’s new dorter. We jumped ona quad, and Boss raced down that cattil race Well, we got ta tha house, an’ Boss rusht ina kitchen, An’ their wuz Sharlene an’ Mum, wot’s bin stayin’ lookin’ afta the house. Mum wuz lookin a bit seady, an’ Boss kneeled ona floor an’ grabb’d her hands. “Mum’ hada bitava fall ina kitchen. Doc ame and sez she’s OK, nothing ta wurry about,” sed Sharlene. Well, readas, Boss made a cuppatee for everone, and then Sharlene sed “how didja no something wuz wrong.’? Boss looked at me, an’ then we both lookt at Hermin, He wuz sittin’ ona windersill, lickin’ his pores agin. “Blowed if I no,” seda Boss.”Wen I saw that Cat ina paddock, I figgered sumpin’ was rong eh? It’s like tha Cat come ta get me an’ Billy.”
Well, nex’ thing Sharlene gotta creem froma frij, an ole’ Hermin was havin’ a good feed. Then later, wen I wuz finishin’ offa a muttin bone, he came over ta me kennil, and blow me, he rubbed up agin me side lika ole mate and shared me tucker. Boss was there an' he rekined maybe it was a sighn of new samd secks marriages the guvmint's lettin' happened. “Blowed if I no,” seda Boss. Well, I reckin I rekin Boss an’ Sharlene havin’ Sophy has changed thing’s here ona farm. Evin Hermin’s becomin’ part ofa famly. She’s a wunda eh? See ya — Billy
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