Tomkins Retired.
Tomkins is one of those gentlemen of kind disposition who are ever on the outlook for a chance to improve their neighbours’ minds.
Seeing a miMt. apparently a country fellow, sitting % the fence, regarding the telegraph wires carefully, Tomkins approached. " Watching the wires, eh ?” “ Yes, sir.” “ Waiting to see a message go by, eh 9 ” Tiie man smiled, and “ Yes, sir," he Uepited.
Then Tomkins spoke kindly to him, and explained the mystery of the electric current, and that the messages were invisible, and finished up : “ Now you know something about it.” Then as he was going away, he said, by the way : ” What do you work at ?”
" Me and my mate over yonder are telegraph workers, and we’re just p_utting uo a new wire.”
Faint heart never won fair lady without considerable assistance from tho lady. .
“ llt-re is the account of a man who had four wives, and he is to suffer for It.” “ What, again 1”
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Lake County Press, Issue 904, 29 March 1900, Page 7
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