30 OCTOBER 1920, Page 13

A RUSTIC MALAPROP.

[To THE EDITOR OF run "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I know you like authentic sayings of the uneducated, so I send you the following

" An old man who takes our ` scraps' for his fowls was asked if they would eat spinach stalks. 'Nm they won't eat spinach, my fowls; but they are martyrs to cabbage and lettuce stalks."'

—I am, Sir, he., C. M. litesos.

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