AWKWARD ACCIDENTS.
An exchange says :— " When a man is splitting wood and a stick flies up and blacks his eye, he muat prepare to endure all the taunts and jeers which the world inflicts on a pirate. Social standing counts for nothing, the dignity can't bo made a mantle of. The other day when a compositor on this paper took up his little axe aud broke a stick or two, aud one end flew into his eye, he knew that he must either remain m bhe house for bwo weeks, or go oub and face the world's sneera. He decided to face the sneers, and during one short half-day ho notad the following expressions :— " It's all right ; of course it waa a stick of wood. Oh, yea." — " Been fighting agfin, eh?"—" Woll,*who knocked ycu down this tirno," — " Oh, I had the same thing ail my eye, aud I always laid it to a stick of wood." — " Ha, ha. The p jliccman struck hard, didn't he ?"— " Of couise it was a stick of wood— ye — he— he 1" Then there wero some people who pointed him oub as tho abduoter of Charley Ross, and people who thought he was ono of the Gad'a flil^robbers ; and over fifty respectable men asked him why he didn't get the other one blacked so as to have a pair.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 726, 10 February 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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224AWKWARD ACCIDENTS. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 726, 10 February 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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