TOOK EVERY PRECAUTION
News had been received by the inspector of the seaside tramway system that ;in overheat! vff?e had fallen in a crowded street. The. inspector betook himself to the • pot. When ho arrived he found a crowd of ptjuplc handling The wire in a, most rareness maimer Going lip to Iho .nearest man he sbcuted: "You bad no right to touch that. wire. If the current had been on you would have been killed outright by the shock !" The other looked at the inspector with a knowing ail'. "Ah," said lie, "I was mighty carefid ! I felt, it carefnllv before [ took hold of it !"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 10
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106TOOK EVERY PRECAUTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 10
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