THIRD TIME LUCKY?
Persistent Bricklayer Dominion Special Service. MASTERTON, August 4. Bricklayers in the Wairarapa need ou occasions to keep firmly in mind the anecdote concerning Robert ‘Bruce . and a particularly persistent spider. A bricklayer engaged on reconstruction work at Mr. W. R. Birch's residence at Taueru, near Masterton, had completed a chimney on Saturday. Late in the afternoon a fairly heavy earthquake brought it down, so, as soon as the tremors had ceased he set to work again. By that evening the chimney was silhouetted against the sky, but with the quake shortly after midnight it was again laid low. On Sunday morning the bricklayer recommenced a task that was taking on some of the aspects of the labours of Sisyphus, and later in the day the chimney rampant testified to his persistence. There, for the moment, the matter rests, and given reasonable time for his concrete to set without further disturbance, the bricklayer believes that the moral in Bruce's little story will receive further corroboration.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 8
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167THIRD TIME LUCKY? Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 8
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