AT A RAILWAY STATION.
"Humourous and exciting incidents are always happening at a railway station," says, a station-master. "I was once watching a couple of boys tossing up coins on the platform, when a penny fell between the metals. Quick as thought, a little dog that was with them sprang on the line to recover the coin. "At that instant the train burst in through the tunnel. The dog tried to reach the higli t but failed and his master had'no time to get down and help him. "But the youth made up his mind ,ina moment. He turned and bolted down the platform, calling to the dog, who followed between the rails. The platform was a long one, and "the train was coming at a high rate. "Faster and faster ran the boy, but the train gained rapidly, and when it finally pulled up, the front wh«e] of the engine was scarcely a foot away from the exhausted. arrimßi.''
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1942, 19 June 1905, Page 2
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160AT A RAILWAY STATION. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1942, 19 June 1905, Page 2
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