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Show Two Men to Eaeh Shovel. There wero two children to cue1 pair ef toller skates and very con tentedly the urchins hopped and slid along. "Two kids to a pair of skates,' remarked the sailor, "takes me back to India, where thoy run two men to a shovel. You see, the Indian nathe In a weaklln' no wonder, conslderln the hot, damp climate and one man to a shovel Is too strenuous. So with a cord tied to the handle down neni the blade the shovel does for two, the man at the cord helpln' to lusert the shovel b pullln' toward hlsself and helpln 'to lift and toss the dirt by swlugln' away from hlsself. Two men to & shovel is a characteristic of India and, of no other country what 1 have ever saw. ' |