“ That looks like an old axe,” said | the visitor to the town’s oldest inhabi- ! taut. “It is, sir, it is. That axe is seventy-five years old. 1 bought it when I was a hoy.” ” The axe seems just as good as when yon bought it, doesn’t k? ” “ Well.” replied the in- j habitant after a thoughtful pause, “ it's had three new blades and five new handles, hut excepting for that she's lust (he same. sir. just the same.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 16
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