A Certain Bet.
A plumber and an upholsterer were recently engaged in fitting up a fashionable residence in Van Ness avenue, and gob into a dis>cuf-6ion as to which was the heavier, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers. " I'll bet you four bits that I can prove to you that a pound of lead is heavier than a pound of feathers,' said the plumbei*. ' I'll take that bet,' said the upholsterer. The plumber cat oil' a piece of lead pipe and pared it down until it weighed sixteen ounces. Then he got from the upholsterer the same weight in feathers. 'Now,' said the plumber holding the lump of lead in his right hand and the bag of feathers in his left hand, ' let me drop the lead on your left foot and the feathers on' your right, and if I do not prove that the lead is the heavier I'll pay you four bits.' The man of feathers would not consent to the trial, bufc paid for the whisky and cigara. — ' Frisco Wasp.'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 6
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176A Certain Bet. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 6
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