A Child Frozen to a Lamp-post.-
-At Penrith, on one of the frosty mornings of last week, a singular accident occurred to a little boy named Grisdale. The little fellow, it appears, was on his way to school, and when near to the police-station he ran up to a lamppost, and placed his tongue upon the metal, before he was aware his tongue had frozen to the post, and he was unable to release himself. Mr. Harrison, librarian at the Working Men's Reading Room, brought some warm coffee and applied it round the boy's tongue in the hope of thawing it off. In this he partly succeeded j but in his efforts to free himself, the boy manged to get away minus a portion of his organ of speech, which was left sticking upon the lamp-post. His tongue afterwards bled profusely, but is now hesiling up — Carlisle Patriot. Marriage is designated by some pcoplo ns a " bridle," because it generally puts a curb upjn some.
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Evening Post, Issue 102, 7 June 1865, Page 2
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