NOVEL FIRE-LIGHTER
MANE FROM HORSE. Tramps clipped the mane from a horse to light their fire at East Hanney, Berkshire, and left pinned to the gate of 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 again m a month or so. We took your sticks and burnt your hedge, For that is the way we make our bread. The horse belonged to Mr 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 to burn, used the mane of the horse as a fire-lighter.
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Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 2
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129NOVEL FIRE-LIGHTER Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 2
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