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AN EDIBLE FENCE.
- Mr. Wetherspoon, M.L.C., considers t liar
the- people of- Sydney are a -hungry lot, prc-
pared.to put their .teeth into; anything- that-
looks eatable. He conies from Gleneoe, in
the Glen Lines jiastoral district, ivhere the
tired sundowner is welcomed as a guestj
and is sent off next day with liis tucker
bag filled; - But if the average Sydneyite
struck the district lie would want to eat
his way" up to the homestead. At the show
Mr. Wetherspoon erected a fence round the
Northern" Rivers and .Tablelands District
Exhibit'. It looked a InuLe more.- artistic
fhah, the ordinary- post, rail, and paling
fence : but. it was not long before the
small boy found it. was something out. of
the ordinary. ; He weiit, down on iiis hands
and knees and commenced biting at it, or
stood leaning over it, apparently looking
at the exhibit, but nibbling at the toji of
the paling. Then men came along and
wrenched the palings down, and carried
them away. In. less than a week visitors
to Jhe show had eaten more than half the
fence. It was rhade of sugar-cane, and the
hungry people found it. was good to cat. —
Sydney 4 ' Sun . " .
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