Country Life

Telling it straight

OUNTRY people usually tell it like it is. That may be a stereotype, and therefore politically incorrect, but it’s true. Country conversations tend to be short and direct. Of course, we bow to the delicacies of our townie friends and, in their company, moderate our directness and talk of FYM (farmyard manure) when, at home, we’d use an Anglo-Saxon four-letter word.

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