A MISUNDERSTANDING.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 June 1918, Page 3

A MISUNDERSTANDING.

" Now, Thorny said, the %-§m^n. of the Railway c.o,nstruqtiQn gang tQ a new hand w^Q had. jusfc been put on the job, " keep your eyes open. When you see a train coming throw down your tools and jump off the track. Run like blazes!"

" Shure !" said Thomas, and began to swing his pick. In a few moments £he express came whir^ii^g alo^g. T^o/i^as, threw dqwn, his nick a.nd. started up, th,e track ahgad. of the train as, fast as he could\ Th,e train, overtPok; h,im. an.d tossed him in.to, a ditch,. B,ad.Jy- shaken up he was ts&en. to a. hospital, where the fo,rem.an visaed him.

*' You blithering idiot," said the foreman, " didn't I tell you to get out of the road? Didn't I tell you to take care and get out of the way? Why didn't you run up the side of the hill ?"

•' Up the soide of the hill is it, sor ?" said Thomas through the banclagas oa Ms face. "Up the scyd^ of the hill? Be the peers', A couldn't bate it on the iev.el, let alone runnin' up the hill !"