A WARM SUGGESTION.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 422, 19 May 1904, Page 8

A WARM SUGGESTION.

Made by a High Climber Wko Uu

Had Some Hot Experience*.

I "If you want to know what heal Is," finally said the High Climber, in j the "Autobiography of a High Climb- : er," in Frank Leslie's Popular Month* i ly, "you must be at the top of a • chimney where the furnaces are i going at full c;;p below. I was point- ! ing up the sides of one high chimney in Massachusetts one hot summer day. I was up about 100 feet. I had done one, two, three sides, and now pulled myself up to shift my hook around to the fourth. My bo'sun's chair swung down from this hook, you understand. "It was hot enough anywhere on the top, but around the cap on the fourth side where the wind was blowing out the smoke and heat it was awful. I dropped my hook down and walked around to the cooler side to rest a bit. Around the cap I had a space of about a foot's width to walk on. In a moment I went baok and put my hand on the hook to sHde down the rope to my chair. Geel •* thought the hair would come out of my head. My shoes frizzed. The hot Iron of the hook blistered my hands. I eonkl stay nowhere near it. "Again and again I went back to that hook. JEach time I was driven to the other side. There in the sun and the furnace heat pouring np, blowing this way, the hook got hotter and hotter. There was no other way of getting down even. I was •aught there.

"Finally, in desperation, I took off my undershirt and grabbed the hook with it. Blistered and burned, I half fell into mj chair and managed to lei myself down."