QUITE SIMPLE.
'A traveller, who was “roughing it' on a trip through one of the most rural of the United States, seldom inspired the local landlords with confidence, owing to his shabby appearance.
In one town he was shown to a room on the third floqr, reached through many narrow and winding passages. From the one window it was a straight drop to the ground. “I say, how would I get out of this place in case of fire ?” he asked the landlord, who had brought up his bag. The other eyed him coldly. “Wall,” he drawled, “all you would have to do would be to show the night watchman—the one with the revolver—a receipted bill for your board and lodging and get him to tie up the bulldog.”
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 7
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129QUITE SIMPLE. Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 7
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