"In the train between London and Dover," writes Mr (r. A. t Sala, en route for the sunny South, " 1" had the advantage of conversing with a gentleman from Chicago, who inquired my destination. I roplied that [it was Rome. ' Rather risky just down there, ain't it?' he. rejoinei l I answered that I had travelled a go< u deal in earthquaking lauds, and that iti the matter of earthquakes, tempests, fevers, 1 and so forth, held with the old poet that 'there is no armour against Fate,'and was accustomed to take iny chance. My companion, from Chicago cogitated foy. a \yhil>?, munching the end of J)is cigar, and then again broke silenpe. ' Wal, he remarked, 'maybe you'll be as safe in Rome as anywhere else, for all the old buildings look as if they'd been earthquaked ovev and over again, and the new ones ain't wor(;h eav^b
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2336, 30 June 1887, Page 2
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