NOTHING NEW.
A scientist was giving a lecture in the village institute on electricity. He was speaking of its importance as a modern invention, when his description of it was challenged by a yokel at the back of the hall. "Modern invention be blowed !" he said "Don't you come here tellin' those yarns. We ain't so daft as all that. Wot sort of lamps did Noah use on his cattle-ship—why, 'ark' lAmss.!-'' -- " -
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 365, 31 May 1911, Page 7
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72NOTHING NEW. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 365, 31 May 1911, Page 7
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