A NARROW SQUEAK.
-• _ " Only this morning," remarked the . little man, '' as I was engaged in tin; > ordinary course of my business, a . boiler, weighing several tons, came • hurtling through the air within a fewfeet of my head!'' Tbo-c were many exclamations of ' horror, and the big man turned to tho speaker with profound respect. " You are engaged in tho cngineer- . ing profession, 1 presume?" he in- ' r(uired. "No," tsaid the little man; "1 am } engaged as a ticket, collector, and the incident I refer to occurred when .' was standing on the platform of our staI tion and tho London cypress went j, through." And in tho which followed tho big mar 1-r- liis cigar go out
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11479, 30 August 1915, Page 2
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116A NARROW SQUEAK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11479, 30 August 1915, Page 2
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