THE BUILDER’S MISTAKE
Under the able superintendence of the twentieth century builder, cottages and houses sprang up like mushrooms upon the new estate. But one morning the foreman rushed into his employer’s office in a state of intense excitement. 'Please, sir,’ he gasped, 'one of the new houses has fallen down in the night.’ What roared the builder ; you mean to tell' me that one of my new, well-built desirable villa residences has come to grief? How did that happen?’ ‘Well, sir,’ explained the foreman, ‘as far as I can make out, there was a little mistake. Unfortunately, the men took down the scaffolding before they had put up the wallpaper!’
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New Zealand Tablet, 28 November 1912, Page 62
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111THE BUILDER’S MISTAKE New Zealand Tablet, 28 November 1912, Page 62
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