A BRILLIANT GENIUS.
Mr. Pett Ridge, the humorist, has been tolling a good story illustrating tho stupidity of a crowd during an emergency. One day, in Wales, a man fell into the river, and a number of people who had assembled on a bridge instead of jumping in to save him, loudly advised him not to drown. Things were looking very blaek for the unfortunate man in the water, when suddenly someone said, "Throw him a rope," A more energetic person than Jiose on the bridge ran off for a rope. Returning a few seconds later, breathless and conscious of his heroism, he rushed down to the water's edge and threw (.lie *ntir« rope to the msiaj, -
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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117A BRILLIANT GENIUS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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