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HARD LABOR.

A well-dressed, portly man stood for lereral moments watching a brawny drayman, who was laboriously tugging at a large, heavy box, which seemed almost as wide as the doorway through which be was trying to move it. Presently the kindly-disposed onlooker approached the persisting drayman nnd said, with a patron : sing air, "Like to have a lift? 1 ' "Bet yer life!" the other replied, and for the next two minutes the two men, on opposite sides of the box, worked, lifted, puffed, and wheezed, but it did not move an inch. Finally the portly one straightened up :inil s:-.:d between his puffs: "I don't believe we can get it in there." "Get it in:':><■ < I ray man shouted. "Why, you idiot, I'm trying to get it •at."*

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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1220, 5 June 1919, Page 3

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HARD LABOR. King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1220, 5 June 1919, Page 3

HARD LABOR. King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1220, 5 June 1919, Page 3

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