THEY HAD PAID.
A gentleman who was on a visit to Niagara (when the car raised and lowered by steam power was in use) went into the starting house to witness the descent, being too timid to go down himself. After the car started, fully impressed with the danger, he turned to the man in charge, and said: “Suppose the rope should break?” “Oh,” replied the man, who had no eye for anything but business, “they all paid before they went!”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXII, 30 November 1901, Page 1060
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81THEY HAD PAID. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXII, 30 November 1901, Page 1060
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