GENERAL ITEMS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1919, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS.

♦ .., "Huh !"' oosUpiTiptiiously rir.culated ..•flele Unu-le Onkori. dining th:2 reoenfc 'Vf\l of low temperatures. "You young iellows don't, know anything about •old v.ci'.tiior. Way, 1 remember the iviuier of e^liieen hundred and so forth, when it wars so cold that, if you flung a can of Vilin' water out o' loors it cracked l'ke a gun. Yes, sir, and a lire cold would freeze solid in ftre minutos. "Worse l^an that, your conversation actually froze before it could be heard. I know a siutterin' man who talked chopped ice, and a feller who drawled so that his remarks froze in his throat and had to be extracted with a. corkscrew. You had to beat your watch every now and then, ar it would tiok itself full of particles >f ice and stop runnin'. Tls boys used to have a great joke. When visitors came, we would slip up and put a. lob of frozen shrieks aud howls in the fireplace, and when they thawed out they'd yell like demons, and we'd have % great laugh at the visitors' surprise. Aw, yes, it was sorter cold that winter."