THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Setting The Thames On, Futu. “Netting tlie Thames on fire,” ’s a phrase often quoted but rarely considered. The following explanation has been given: Tile “temse” was an old fashioned horse-hair corn sieve used for sifting grain after it had been ground. Good workers would sieve vigorously, and frequently the friction would cause the horse-hair to smoulder, but a lazy person never “set tf>c temse on fire.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1926, Page 2
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71THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1926, Page 2
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