A Leap for Life.
" I was crossing a long railway bridge," said a Yankee yarn-spinner to some acquaintances, 11 when I was tv-prised to see a, locomotive coming round a curve and tearing towards me afc.a terrific speed. The bridge was too narrow to allow of escape at either, side, and I dare not jump into the yawning abyss below. I started on a quick run towards the locomotive, and when within a few feet of it I concentrated all my nerve and muscle into one effort and leaped straight up into the air. The fearful monster shot under me, aed I came down on the bridge, saved from death, but seriously shaken by the descent."
There was a moment or tiro of deep silence ; and then one of the company sighed, and said in a whisper, loud enough to be heard half a mile off •
" What's the use of presence oE mind when a man can tell stories like that P "
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Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 60
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162A Leap for Life. Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 60
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