WHY THEY WAITED.
High up, three hundred feet above the ground, the steeplejack proceeded with his perilcis task. Beneath, hini^ a patent crowd of expectant people'watched iiis operations with breathless interest. "He gives me the cold shivers," cried a glvl. powdering her- nose. There was silence for half an hour, then tin: same girl syioUe iißuin. "lie liiakon mo tremble' at the knees," she remarked. Still the croivd ga/.ed upward. At the end of another 20 minutes they all sighed wistfully. "Well," murmured a voice, "it seems useless waiting any longer. I don't believe he's going to- fall." '
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 21
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