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THE BULL AND THE GOVERNMENT PAPERS.
Here is a comical adventure that some members of an English ordnance survey met with while touring in the south of Scotland. In the prosecution of their calling they entered a field belonging to a crusty old farmer. Seeing the strangers looking about in a way he could not understand, the farmer approached.
"What are ye loitering in the field for?"