Punch,  21 (1851), 126.

Agricultural Intelligence

Bumpkin

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Agriculture, Invention, Machinery


    Written from the perspective of a rustic, rejects the 'reapun masheen' forced upon agricultural workers by the 'Mericans' and threatens to beat the machine 'any day, wi a hook'.



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