Show two stories the sturdiness nesa of the north and its rather grim self will aro admirably illustrated lust rated by two yorkshire anecdotes A landlord of very old family proposed to make an alteration in one of his tenants farm buildings which the tenant declined to permit whereupon the landlord remarked very mildly that after all the building was his own thereupon the tenant rejoined nay my forefather went to the crusades with your forefather and yon shant touch a stone of it again a daughter one of tho leading citizens of a yorkshire town hinted to her fathers gardener that the family would like to appropriate the greenhouse to the purposes of a vinery whereupon ehe aas told to let her father know ho may just choose betwixt me and the grapes of course tho proposal was abandoned |