THE SHAH AND THE EIFFEL TOWER
They succeeded on Saturday in. getting tbo > v hab up to the fust floor of the Eiffel Tower, but not all the blandishments of M. Uerger could get him any farther. As for the lifts he would not look at them. After much discussion he started up the iron stairs leading from the ground and ascended some forty feet. There he remained, clinging to the hand rail. After a bit he sat down on the stairs. Then by a mighty effort he pulled himself together, and rau violently up the rest of the flight to the next lauding •where , again he sat down, f-o by gailarii rushes, and alternate resting he gained ihe lowest pi aforra. That satisfied him They got him to tho eutraoce to the u;>pei' lift, they shoved the vizier in, but the Lion of Persia was not to be entrapped, and he had had enough of stairs. For awhile it seemed a question whether he would go down or spend the rest of his reign up there ; bat the oheers of the crowd, the shouts of '■ II a petu- ! " revived his flagging courage, aiid he fina'ly descended by the way by which ho came up. — World.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 1 October 1889, Page 4
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206THE SHAH AND THE EIFFEL TOWER Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 1 October 1889, Page 4
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