A Man Who Never Told a Lie.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 2

A Man Who Never Told a Lie.

Yesterday, an old oil man, with crude petroleum dripping from his clothes and hit legs inclosed in high boots, entered the " Derrick " office and aaid :— " Want an item ? I've got the biggest item you ever heard tell of, I struck an He well on my lease Monday, an' Bhe flowed a stream of ile 100 feet hight straight up for half an hour. Then she kinder died down. One of my drillers was standing over the hole, when she suddenly spurted up again, and if it didn't take that driller right up with it The stream was a powerful one, you gee, an' he went up a hundred feet. You've seen those little balls as dance about on top of. those, little spurtin' fountains such as they have in the cities ? Yes, waal that's the way this 'ere thing acted, an' there's that air-driller right up on top of that hundredfut column of crude ile, an' he's dancin' about like chaff in a fannin'-mil). What do you think of that un ?" "How long has he been up there?" " Ahout four dayß and four nights." "He must be very hungry by this time. Doesn the come down to eat something?" "Why we uns just put a pla'e of bash in this stream of ile, and it takes it up to him, you see. I An' it's mighty handy, as he finds hw victuals already greased, an' he doesn't need butter." Hib face was as innocent of deceit as a piece of tanned leather, and when he asked to have hie name put down as a deadhead subscriber for information he had given, we didn't have the heart to hurt bis feelings by refusing. — "Oil City Derrick."

"Itis a curious vrorld," a barber eaid ; nobody ain't satisfied. The last man but one in my obair made me brush and grease his curly hair till it was straight, and the. next man to him made me curl his straight hair."