A Plucky Shunter.
[United Press Association.] BsiSBiNE, Tbis'Dny. A Railway servant named Ewing was shunting a heavily laden train at Alpha Btation to allow the special to pnss when a large brown snake crawled out of the pointboi over his bands and shoulder down his back and escaped. Ewing pluckily held on io the lever and allowed the train to cross safely. When questioned afterwards he said thai if he had let the lever go the train would have been wrecked and probably many lives would have been lost. It was simply a case of many lives or one. Besides his own safety depended on bis keeping cool and quiet.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1895, Page 3
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110A Plucky Shunter. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1895, Page 3
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