PLUMBERY.
A plumbing establishment, a few days ago, took on a new hand juat arrived from Wales. On the day after his arrival a water-pipe: in a large establishment burst. ..He was ,told, to gO and atterid to if. ' Seeing the owner of the house in the shop, he went up to .him and got the particulars of .the accident, i and. then he made ready bis tools and started. . Just as he was going out of the door the proprietor s&w him. . : "Where are you going?" he almost screamed. The new man told him. "Do you mean to tell me that you are going up there to fix that pipe without examining it ?" he gasped. 11 Why, I am going to look at it when I get ( there," said the man. [ "Merciful Heaven," ejaculated his employer, catching hold of the desk, to support himself, " can t it be possible that you would do a job at one visit ? Don't you know;your trade better than that ? Have you no pride 'in your business ? Why, you'd ruin the en tire community in less than a year 1" _ . , As soon as he grew calmer he explained to the new man that he should first visit the house and make a thorough examinati6n of^ the building, get the lay of the streets, find the location of the , nearest hydrant, go upon I the roof of the house, and then return thoughtfully to the shop for .his tools, keeping an accurate record of the time. ♦
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9190, 18 September 1891, Page 4
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251PLUMBERY. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9190, 18 September 1891, Page 4
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