ONE FOR ALCOHOL.
Two men, one strictly sober, the other—well, as “ tight as a bottle,” says the West Coast correspondent of. the Otago Times, jumped into a decending coal waggon on the Denniston hill incline. It broke away on the brow of the first steep gradient, and leaving, the rails, plunged through mid-air for two or three chains, dnring which the sober man attempted to take a higher flight, and supped that night with Dives. Bacchus sat still. The truck shot on, and presently sailed down among the trees of the forest glade far below. Full of consternation went the onlookers to the fatal spot. The car was a complete wreck, but Bacchus sat unharmed on top of a stump, and hiccoughed, by way of a reply to inquirers : “Mine’s beer, and Bill, what’ll ’e ’ave ?” Bill was his late compagon de voyage. i
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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1754, 27 July 1895, Page 2
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144ONE FOR ALCOHOL. Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1754, 27 July 1895, Page 2
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