CURIOUS ADVENTURE IN A CHIMNEY.
A tsathkr queer adventure (says the Cardiff Mail) befell a. boy in Newton on Jonfl'J. The roofs of some houses were ™ d fg £ repair. After the shades cf nigiit tad &"* and the workmen had gone home, * »£ -snied a 1-idder leaning against one Ot Whouses hy which the workmen hadl reach* the root. The urchin being of 3 «ther «"* chiovous turn of mind, gathered a; P 0 of stones, and, his face beaming with jo), quicilv mounted the ladder and da»«* up the roof of a house which he k»e» r.o other than the chimney. But there" found another obstacle in his way. J* , he could throw a single stone: aovra' ; chimncv he would have to climb up to . top of 'the brick-work. By mm* ,«erti^ h°s top" f ? r * e / A stone he threw with all his ™Kh" d ° thn chimney, and fairly chucked with g Wi.r.n lo! sad to relate, h,s ricil him too far, and he over-balanc* fell dowi, the chimney head foremost. .L domestic funnel had not been recently ***£ and things went pre^; fireside reading a newspaper by eatm | hearth out of the chimney may in.agined than described. She « &r* said her impression at the time was of the old gentleman's ""P^, p C ° t t o black her While she screamed for he p tno a visitor disappeared through the door. "The te,»ad«S those reflect ndicule up j/papw L w>man invariably tarns to * 9 | marriage column. |
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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