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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 October 1929, Page 13

A Coromandel correspondent of Hie Auckland ‘Star” who is, as he; himself nuts; it “verv-much alive, despite tne fact that he is 72 years of aB e ’® ends interesting account of how, at the age o welv " he narrowly escape Premature burial. “I was laid out for dead, he states, “and a doctor gave a certifies’te ef death. As a matter of fact I wa« four days and four m« h ts in a trance. My coffin was made. Mvdear getting ready to put me into it. My dea old mother could not get it out of her mind that I was still alive and at the wake I sat up in my shroud. The man who had dug my grave ran <>“* coffin, and threw it into the srare- 1 coffin is still there, and “y brerther m law grew two walnut trees on the mound. This happened on the old home home fa m at Takapuna. The correspondent adds that he visited the scene three months ago. and noticed that one of the walnut trees had died, aud that the P for the lake water supply stood on the X of the old home. I have reared a family of eight.” concludes the letter “seven sons and one daughter Two ot my boys are sleeping then- lone sleep over in France.”