AN AMATEUR SURVEYOR
* . He was a new chum, and he so tfjhl work and fonnd it not To him approached a surveyor, and said, •• Canst ase a theodolite f and he repliel •• Yea, *wilj," though the saute Le had never gwn, and knew not what it might be. Then did the sorveyt-r provide him with a theodolite and other things needful, and sent him out into the desert to 'snnrcy. And he went, and with him a gang of laborer*. And he did squint through the theodolite, and did drive in pegs here and them, and the men did work along the line of tl.e pegs, which the same was iucorra t. And after six*weeks did the surveyor come, and say "These to not right. Wh refore is this thasT And tiie youth replied, v i know not. " Tlw n did the surveyor discharge the yoaih, who went away gladly with Govern-' ment shekels in his pocket r< presenting his pay for six weeks, and sought another billet, hot the Surrey Department knew him no more. *
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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1573, 13 July 1885, Page 2
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176AN AMATEUR SURVEYOR Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1573, 13 July 1885, Page 2
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