His First Live One.
"During one of my trips through Europe," says Charles Hawtrey, "I found myself in a small village Avith no razors. jThey . had been packed in my handbag, which I had left at the hotel where I Lad stayed the day before. There was no barber's shop in the place, and I was in a quandary as. to how I might get shaved. The innkeeper told me that there was a man in the village who occasionally shaved people, and I determined to risk a cut or two, and sent for him. The amateur barber arrived, and 1 after a little hesitation he said to me :
" ' Will you please, sir, lie down flat on your back while I shave you, sir?" "Thinking that it was probably the custom of the country, I stretched out comfortably on my back and nearly went to sleep while the fellow shaved me, so light was his touch. When he had finished I said :
'"I am curious to mow why you asked me to lie down to be shaved?' " 'Because, sir,' was his ingenuous reply, I never before shaved a live man !' "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 84
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190His First Live One. Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 84
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