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night and remained there for four hours. Un- 

 easy and sad, he wandered down the track and 

 climbed a pole, cut the wire and placed the 

 ends each side of his tongue and tasted out 

 the fatal message " Died at half -past ten." 

 The shock (not the electric) was so great that 

 he almost fell from the pole. 



What a situation! A man climbs a pole at 

 midnight miles from the sick friend he loves, 

 puts his tongue to inanimate wire, and ie told 

 in concrete language through the sense of 

 taste that his friend is dead. This is only 

 one of the many, many wonderful episodes of 

 the telegraph. 



