MODERN ROBINSON CRUSOES.
■ Fduri lads (who being all -14 yeai's of . | age, might have been : expected • Lo |be : wiser)) after: a severe coy rge of,t?The Boy Voyagera," ki Robinson Crmoe,',' &nl other advqnturou? literature.starte^d . fiohivßlackinaits'i Britlge ;j! on , f Boxjng JDiiy ; in an jopeiv. boat, iu tending, to ])ioceed to Australia. They .had;/y;ictualled tlieir little oraft with a quantity of buscuit, and carried , besid.es a qoiupass, : teapot, and kettle, some candles,, an<l matches, a box of stationery, a bullet mould, a revolver, aud some powderl' After proceeding safely as far as Greenwich, they i an- upon a mud bnnk during a. fog, "and being compelled to appeal' for assihtance, \vere rosQi.teri by the. police galley, and ignominiQysly lacked . < up'imtil theiri . pai ents : >tulrpedj , up| to , ■claim them. :■ 'Ehei magistrates l^eforo whom tbeyiwereibrought warned^ the boys to bo less foolish,, aiuktjhey. were seubiliome.L ; /i i '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume iv, Issue 68, 19 February 1884, Page 2
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144MODERN ROBINSON CRUSOES. Manawatu Standard, Volume iv, Issue 68, 19 February 1884, Page 2
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