A WHOPPER.
The agents of two rival iron safe manufacturers were recently representing the claims of their respective articles. One was a Yankee, the other wasn’t. He that wasn’t told this story : A gamecock had been shut up in one of his safes, and then it was exposed three days to the most intense heat. When the door was opened the cock stalked out, flapped his wings, and crowed loudly as if nothing had happened. It was now the Yankee’s turn. A cock had also been shut up in one of his safes with a pound of fresh butter, and the safe was submitted to the trial of a tremendous heat for more than a week. The legs of the safe were melted off, and the door itself so far fused as to require the use of a cold chisel to get it opened. When it was opened, the cock was found frozen dead, and the butter so solid that a man who knocked off a piece of it with his hammer had his eye put out with a butter splinter.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1074, 17 August 1883, Page 2
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181A WHOPPER. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1074, 17 August 1883, Page 2
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