THE BOY AND BENZINE
■ IK A. CITY GARAGE. The person -who eat On a cask of pan- 1 powder smoking find then knocked Out the hot ashes on tho cask was a paragon of wisdom compared with a Wellington youth, who was; engaged by a motor-CM* owner to clean up tho car and. doodd jobs about the promises. He was accommodated with a room in the garage, and in ordor to be quite comfortable as he read his "penny shocker," ho dragged in a case of petrol, and set his candle, otherwise unprotected, on. tho ton. Had. ho dropped to slwp and allowecT the, caadlo6tump to burn right down, there would probably havo boon trouble, as t , T ,° wftro several other Ciisos of potrol quite handy, but ho happened to bo disoovored at Ms Htorary pursuits, and was summarily dismissed. '. • ■' •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 4
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140THE BOY AND BENZINE Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 4
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