A MAN OF RESOURCE.
9 Colonel Pilcher, who has recently been so successful in outwitting the Boers, is a man of infinite resource, and never misses an opportunity of displaying his inventive genius to advantage. , He was shooting in Kashmir some eight or ten years ago, when a native came into his camp and complained that he was possessed of a devil which, ihe could not get rid of. Most men would 1 have given the man a pill' and sent him away. The " sardine " (as Colonel Pilcher is called) went " one better." Making the man lie flat on his back, he placed on his chest a small pyramid made of damp gunpowder. Then taking the glass out of his binocular he warned hit patient to prepare, as the devil was just coming out. Having focussed the sun on to the pyramid, it ignited, and the spirit devil disappeared in a cloud of sparks and smoke. The devildoctor called out, "There he goes!" and the man jumped up and went, away happy.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6827, 21 June 1900, Page 2
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172A MAN OF RESOURCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6827, 21 June 1900, Page 2
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