CALMING HIM.
A careless man dropped a brick from the second storey of a building 011 which ho was at work. Leaning over the wall and looking down, he saw a respectable gentleman with his hat jammed over his eyes. The bricklayer, in tones of apprehension, asked: —■ "Did tho brick hit anyone down there?" Tho gentleman, with great difficulty extricating himself from the extinguisher into which his hat had been transformed, replied, with considerable warmth: "Yes, sir, it did; it hit me." "That's right," exclaimed the man, in tones of undisguised admiration. "Noble man! I would rather have wasted a thousand bricks than have you tell me a lie about it."
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New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 45
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111CALMING HIM. New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 45
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