A SAVING SENSE OF HUMOUR.
"Yes; I had a narrow escape once. It was in Calcutta, when the plague was raging—many years ago, when Europeans had little better chanco' than tho natives. Tho hospitals- we'ro full to overflowing, and I, with many others, was lying in a large shed put up for the purpose. Some of tho poor chaps were dead, and ;I protty near it, when a mail came round with one of the doctors to .mensura tho bodies, and I learned from their tall; that they counted mo already ainongst the corpses. I was too far gone to cry out; 1 could not move or even opnn m.v oyos—r" "What did yon do?" "Ohl—l just sajiledr—'"Westminster Budget." ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 4
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119A SAVING SENSE OF HUMOUR. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 4
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