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We have a gravel roof on our house, and "the other 'day some workmen were up .there fixing it. They had a block and tackle- rigged on the edge of the roof, with a rope reaching to the ground, for the purpose ,of hoisting the tar and gravel. Our girl was out washing the yard at - the timp; and somehow the book on 'the eildof'the rope caught in.'Jjer loopskit't as she walked^ past it. Tlie sman on the roof was discussing the Darwinian theory, or the tax on' rum, or Something else, at that moment, and seeing the rope shake, he considered it was the signal to pull up ; so> without looking over the edge, he 'began to wind the crank with velocity. A "moment later the next door, neighbors heard fearful screams, and _as they ruslied to•the windows they 'perceived an athletic' exile of Erin swiftly ascending to the blue, ethereal heavens. The man at: the crank, fa^Jy, ached jio look over and see what the noise was about, but he could'nt stop, he thought, until he got the bucket up to the top. But he put on more vehemence, and in a moment ne was amazed to see ' a human head, adorned wi|ih. red. hair, looming above' the gutter - spout. His darist impulse)
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was to let go the crank and run^ But overcoming the earlier shook of 'fright, he-held on to the crank with one hand, while with the other he seized ,-i handful of the warm hair, and ' hauled the owner on the ronf. We, live in' one of a row pf houses which .are all joined together, and they, do say the impetuosity with which that girl of ours charged upon that man who mussed her hair, and chased him over the roofs clear up to the corner, where he saved himself by crawling down a chimney-flue, was at once impressed and exhilirating. She stood over that chimney expressing her views concerning the man's present character and future prospects until she was exhausted, when she walked home to our roof, lifted the .trap door, descended, and went to bed. And when the man emerged, and brushed the soot off of him, he confided to his friend, while distributing the gravel," that he would rather dive at once into the bowels of a burning volcano than to meet that hired girl again in a place where there was no chance to run. — , American paper.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 391, 16 September 1874, Page 6
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