As He Lived.
The machinery of a big mill stopped with a sudden and horrible jar and jerk, and the workmen pulled out the crushed and bleeding form of a poor fellow who was a stranger to them all. "Are you badly hurt?" inquired one. "I fear that I am," groaned the unknown. "I'm dying." "Shall we send for your friends? Quick, tell us your name." "Oh. never mind," he answered. "I axn all alone in the world, and my name doesn't matter. Just say that I died incog." And a grim gmile illumined his face as the spirit of the 'professional humorist took its flight with his last supreme effort.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 71
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111As He Lived. Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 71
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