NOVEL FIRE-LIGHTER
Tramps clipped the mane from a, hors€ to light, their fiie at East Hanney, Berkshire, and left pinned to the gate ol the meadow the following note:— We hope the fellow whose hair we stole Won't mind us using it for coal. There's plenty more, for it will soon grow. And we'll come aijain in a month or so. We took you- sticks and burnt your hed»a For that is the way we bake our bread. The horse belonged to Mr. W. J. Walcroft, landlord of an inn at East Hanney, in whose field the men camped. The tramps cut wood from the hedge for their fire, but apparently finding it difficult to get it to bum, used the mane of the horse as a fire-lighter*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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128NOVEL FIRE-LIGHTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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