The Walking Stick That Ended Up A Spy's Nose in 1914.

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Please do not try any of what follows as this happened 100 years ago or more, before health and safety was invented.

Although not connected to the above story the following did happen on the same farm, as I understand it, so a bit of an "aside". My gran told me that she and her brother had "great fun", when their father was out for the day, using a cattle water trough as a canoe on the river that ran through the farm. Apparently it was easy enough to get the cattle trough into the river but less easy getting it out again when the fun was over for the day and they had to get it out before their father arrived home. This was because he got angry very easily and very quickly. The solution was found by my gran's brother "borrowing" their father's Model T Ford and tying a rope round the cattle trough and the other end round the back axil of the Model T Ford and then simply "hauling" the cattle trough out of the river. Their father wasn't aware that my gran's brother could "drive" at this time or that his Model T Ford had been "borrowed". He was also never able to figure out how his Model T Ford had come to get a bent rear axil.