AN AMATEUR SURVEYOR.
TIo was a new chum, and lie sought work and found it not. To him approached a surveyor, and said, "Canst use a theodolite ?" and lie replied u Yea. \enlv, though the same lie li.id never seen, and knew not what it might he. Ihen did the surveyor provide him with a theodolite *nd other things needful, and sent him out into the desert to survey. And he went, and with him a gang of laborers. And he did squint through the theodolite, and did drive 111 pegs here and theru, and the men did work aloiuj the line of the pegs, which the same was incorrect. And after six weeks d d the surveyor come, and say 4k These he not right. Wherefore is this thus ?" And the youth replied, " I know not." Then did the surveyor discharge the youth, who went away gladly With Government shekels in his pocket representing his pay lor six weeks, and sought another oillet, but the Survey Department knew him no more.—Wellington Press.
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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 229, 4 July 1885, Page 4
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173AN AMATEUR SURVEYOR. Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 229, 4 July 1885, Page 4
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