THE LAST STRAW.
Wur.de!: '_' Cold ? Not a bit of it! Why, I remember last Christmas, when I was in California, the steam from a pa/=sing engine frozo hard and fell on the line in sheets!"
Smyler: "That's nothing! In 1889 the oleotricity in our telephone exchange got, frozen, and when the thaw came along all the machines were talking as hard as they could for over six hours I" Chansit: "The coldest Christmas I can remember was in 'Bl. when the policemoa had to run to keen themselves warm !" Silently the last speaker was awarded the palm. And a caroJ-eingcr fainted.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 69
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101THE LAST STRAW. Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 69
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