Post on 25-Jul-2018
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AT THE TOP OF A LONG
CHIMNEY.
A MAN will go blind, and mad too, fromfear; I have seen it happen, and if
you don't mind listening, will tell you
the story. I was apprenticed to a builderwhen I left school, .and soon got to like the
trade very much, especially when the work
was perilous, and gave me a chance to out-
do the, other lads in daring. "Spider" was
my nick-name in those days, given partly
on account of my long legs, for I had out-
grown my proportions, and partly because
they said I could crawl along a roof like mynamesake. When I was about three-and-
twenty, I was working with the famous Mr., and went down to Swansea with his
picked hands, to carry out a contract he had
taken in that town. While there, I fell in love
with the prettiest girl I had seen in Wales, and