A Coal Story.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue VII, 14 February 1903, Page 455

A Coal Story.

A gentleman who seems to have l>eeii supplied with a ra her curious form of fuel semis us a copy of a letter which he has addressed to his coal merchants:— “Sirs, —When you semi the next loa I of paving stones please put a few knob* of voal on the top (i.e., if you have any). You can leave the rest outside* they may come in for the roads. In deed, you need not send them at all unless you cling, as it were, to custom, or want your horse to have the exercise. W’e have now quite finished our rockery and the stone wall round the garden, and are thinking of trying coal •‘W’e sometimes get a lot of heat out of your stuff, but the sledge-hamm • exercise is too violent for my wife, so we are going to drop it in favour of Sandow’s Exerciser. The large slabs bear the constant hammering remarkably well, and will last us on for a long time —they strike lire and emit spaiks finely. The new stones, however, are very black at first until they have had rain upon them, wh.n they look very nice and rustic. “We are old-fashioned sort of peopl *. and would feel glad at any time to hear if you should come across any of the good old coal tha 4 we used to set a light to and cook a feed by.’