MAN'S CALAMITIES
SVDNKV October 0. The fates and the stars, as well as horses, have certainly been unkind to Neil .M.cNeil, of 'i’arcc. 11 is life seems in have been one long chapter of cnlamilies. He has had so many accidents with horses during the last nine tears that lie now accepts these mishaps philosophically. Horses have kicked him; they have trodden on him : they have bitten him; and they have rudely tossed him out of vehicles. At different, times he has had his hip toe broken and the nail torn off, his ankle lias been broken twice, his kneecap lias been injured twice, his ribs have been broken, his shoulder has been fractured, his ear has been split, his scalp lias been cut, and his hand lias been badly torn. Hut that is not all. The poor chap in now in hospital recovering from injuries received in a blasting accident while pottinp metal which he had a contract to cart. And the probability is that if the blasting accident had not occurred his horse would have heaved him over the quarry. Some people are unluckly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1924, Page 4
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186MAN'S CALAMITIES Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1924, Page 4
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