MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR.
:. ..- _ ■:. ; Early one morning (says a chin> 'ney sweep) I was sweeping a chimney that ran close to the fireplace' of a bedroom occupied by an old gentleman.: By-and-by I heard someone stirring upstairs, and when we were ready to go I heard footsteps oh the "Hold on !" I said. "We'll have some fun." With that I opened the, door very cautiously, and put the head of the brush through. Bang ! The head dropped to the floor, cut off as .clean as a whistle ! Suppose my, own head had been there ! The old idiot upstairs had been woke up by^the rumbling of the chimney, and had got the idea that burglars were in the house. He saw some dark object come out of the room ? and blazed away at it.' He was a dead shot, wasn't he ?"-
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)
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140MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR. Northern Advocate, 27 January 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)
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