THE BRIDGE STEALERS OF RUSSIA.
i A traveller arrives at a river which be calculates on being able to cross. Not a bit of it ! The briige has been solen in tbe night by tbe ipeasants ! True ii is that these briflgt s are wretched affairs enough, built of loose planks and logs of wood, but still, such as they are. they conititute the only means of crossing the river ; and in any other couatry in the world tbev would be respected as common property But, on some night, two or three peasants who are in want of wood for building or burning, ind who are too lazy to get the wood honestly, repair to the bridge and quietly eait away as much of it as they require. Sometimes tbev take awny the whole affair, but oftener utterly heedless of the consequences, they take enough to leave a huge gap, throuub which tbe ueit .traveller probaMy tumbles and gets drowm d. l" Yet tbesn same rogues ate very religious, and j would not miss going to church on Sunday foi | anything.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5
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181THE BRIDGE STEALERS OF RUSSIA. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5
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