A RECORD FOG.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 7

A RECORD FOG.

* The whole company had been spinning yarns chiefly of the variety known as tall, and it had come to the turn of a quiet country yokel, who, with a yawn commenced, "I remember one haytime, just as we. were starting work in the morning, a thick fog came on. It was only a ground fog, but it prevented us seeing to worki in the fields, so we went to the farmyard and busied ourselves with other work, waiting for the fog to clear. I started thatching a stack we had just put up, and was getting on very nicely when suddenly the fog lifted, and. I fell to the ground with a lot of straw. When J .got up T saw what had happened. I'd finished one layer down to the root of the stack, and had gone on and he«a thatching the fog for fully two or three yards further. Then, of course when the fog cleared there waa nothing to hold me up, and I fell !"