HIS LUCK CHANGED.
A butcher in a small way of business was in the habit of sending his o:: out with a small trap to deliver The lad was a careless driver, and one day he knocked down an old lady. Th s inevitable lawsuit followed, and the butcher had to pay heavy damages. Shortly after this his son was the cause of another accident, which had a similar result and the drain on the butcher's resources brought him to the verge of ruin. A few days after the second case b:A been settled he was sitting in his thinking over hi:; hard fate, ■. iK'u a neighbour came rushing in i-reathless with the information that i i.i c art had been ri:n into by a »• otcr-car, and his son was lying in -;.!•? hospital. "'hank goodness!" exclaimed the butcher : "my luck's changed at last.'
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 14 March 1914, Page 7
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143HIS LUCK CHANGED. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 14 March 1914, Page 7
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