A FIERY ORDEAL.
'A Svdney girl the other day had a disagreeable object-lesson of the folly of. riding "in smoking comportments in the tram. Sho was sitting- in one of the open "tourist" care, and in.tho 6eat behind her sat a man smoking a cigar. As tho.man rose to leave tho car the' torn stopped with a jerk, which threw*''him violently against the girl, but as apparently no harm was done he merely apologised and.left ■the car..- Shortly'after tho conductor coming round for. fares startled' the girl with, the remark: "Don't move, miss, you're- a-firc!" With extraordinary presenco of mind, she sat quite still while the conductor and another man smothered the fire in her hat. Tho end of the cigar had fallen on to tho broad brim oft her hat, and burnt a large hole right through, trimming and straw, it means' a new hat to tho girl, but sho is so thankful to have escaped .so easily that she is not grumbling at' that.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 3
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166A FIERY ORDEAL. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 3
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