Boy Thinks Nothing Of Swallowing Articles
HOXDON, .Tune 17. Bovs will be boys, but trouble begius when some think they are ostriehes. Brian Mitchell. 14, of Derbvshire. found a length of thin chain in a fleld near his honie at Birdholme last week. AeeideiMallv he swallowed it. He felt no ill effects. On klon day a girl friend at Haslaud TTall Rehool lieard about it aud said: "Rwallow a half pennv to show you love nie." Brian swallowed a half pennv. On Tuesdav a boy gave hirri a farthing and dared him to swallovi it. Brian swallowed the farthing and annther of his own. On Wednesday sehool friends gatherod up 10 buttons. Brian swallowed the lot. Tt took him 10 minutes. Yesterday tliey thought they had Brian beaten. The boys eollected 24 e'mpty cartridge ea=es but Brian swallowed them "too. He never niissed sehool: And never niissed a meal. ' ' 0,^ J Then Brian began to wondery* BLp; popped into the Chesterfield and an X-rav showed the ■ 2'4--fcart-j ridges, 10 buttons, two farthi^a»RQ'4« half pennv and the chain. . -Irfel - A doct-or said-: "He seems a natural knack of swallowing tHih'gacc t Rkid Brian: feel fine, but 1) d^f^t think I'll do it again." _. * ;
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19490620.2.21
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1949, Page 5
Word Count
202Boy Thinks Nothing Of Swallowing Articles Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in