NGAPARA'S WELL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 227, 13 June 1918, Page 6

NGAPARA'S WELL

Sir,—Your "unusual incident" at Nk.it para happi&ed similarly ju?l , r iU year® ago at Toliomarairo, and. morn because" it happened on a Wednesday, and th<*> year was 'GS, while the present is 'IS,. I thought it might be worth a word or two. As was my weekly wont, th» "Bruce Herald" being published on AVednosdays only, I had "eompwi'' irom 8 to i on the Tuesday, got my horse in. from Black's farm, and put him in tha back yard of printing house square, ready for the suburbs delivery in tho early morning; "rolled" till midnight; folded my requirements for the round: by 1 a.m.; and was looking for the old: mare, but, though the area of search ira.y limited, no mare, was there. AY hen I did find her she was down the well, and the long grass hid her. I fancy my well was deeper than Ngapara's depths, because my mare could not get her hocks on the parapet, and there was no parapet anyliow. All I could do was dig, and I dug, and got her out, and the suburbs got their "Bruce Herald" as usual that Wednesday mom, and no one knew what happened until the evidence of the cuts on the mare and the massacre of the well told the tale, and then, well, we only smiled.—l am, etc., HENRY BODLET.