HARD LABOR.
A well-dressed, portly man stood For several moments watching a brawiiy drayman, who was laboriously tuggin,? at a large, heavy box, which seemed almost as wide as the doorway through which he was trying to move it.
Presently the kindly-disposed onlooker approached the persisting drayman and said, with a patronising air, "Like to have, a lift?"
"Bet yer life!" the other replied, and for the next two minutes the two men, on opposite sides of the box, worked, lifted, puffed, and wheezed, but it did not move an inch.
Finally the portly one straightened up and said between his puffs:
"I don't believe we can get it in
there."
"Get it in?" the drayman shouted. '?Why, you idiot, I'm trying to get k out."
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 17 February 1915, Page 3
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