HE WAS A HERO.
♦ A country gentleman, going fait rounds after bis dinner in the disk of the evf niiig, saw a great snake coiled ;op in his garden walk. With a singular bravery and presence of mind ;ha immediately got an axe, cat the creators into a hundred pieces, returned to the Itonse, told everybody ahovt j his exploit, and went, to bed. Next j mm-uing his gardener came to kiss in > great tribulation. - Well George »" " A cnrions thing hat happeaed in the garden, sir." " Yes, George." " It's cut to pieces, sir. Sotae rillai* must ha* done it' " A villian. George t Twas t did if» with my own baud, George T' " You sir?" " Fes, I, O»orge. I don't svpfww there's another man in the country witk the pluck to do it bat myself." . "To do what, art" • ♦ . < 'To«utto l >W!eeßaji4knitfcatfr%fc^ -' ful snake:" ' * . " Lawk, naster ! 'twaen't a soak*-^ - Iwas only 4he garden how» !" *
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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1535, 15 April 1885, Page 2
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154HE WAS A HERO. Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1535, 15 April 1885, Page 2
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