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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 492, 17 August 1912, Page 2

A RESOURCEFUL MAN. A New York journalist tells the following story of Mr. Winston Churchill, with whom he dined at a London hotel. "Mr. Churchill praised American journalists. He gave me an example of our perseverance. One week no fewer than forty-seven correspondents called on him at the Board of Trade offices for an interview on the American tariS. and as none of them had sufficiently good credentials he refused to see them. Finally a correspondent came with a letter from Mr. Lloyd George, and him Mr. Churchill saw gladly. 'Do you know,' he said to th)n young man, 'that I have refused to see forty-seven of your compatriots on this very subject ?' 'I ought to know it,' the correspondent answered, 'for I am the whole forty-seven.' " AERIAL MONKEY-NUTS. He was a very, very unknown aviator. Nevertheless, he had built a machine entirely on his own, and could tell you exactly how many yards of canvas, lengths of wire, hundreds of nuts, etc., were necessary in its construction. He had made one or two little trips towards the sky, and now he wanted to take up a passenger. By way,of experiment towards this, he took up his pet monkey. But something happened. Down came the aeroplane —crash ! The birdman picked himself out of the wreckage, and then began to sort out the remains of his machine in an effort to discover the cause of the sudden descent. At last he found it. His monkey had eaten all the nuts ! How had he got them out ? Why, with a monkey-wrench, of course.