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UPS AND DOWNS IN THE BUILDING TRADE
01. A student had been summer working on a building site in Canada. He claimed
02. money for an accident which had there happened to him on the building site.
03. He told to the court that his job had been to carry bricks down
04. from the fourth floor to the ground. He said: "I put up a beam and tackle
05. at the top of the house. Then I fixed up to a barrel on the end of a long rope.
06. The other end of the rope I tied it to a tree. I then went to the fourth floor
07. and filled the barrel with bricks. Then I went down to the ground and untied
08. the rope from the tree. Before I knew all what was happening,
09. the barrel pulled me up into the air. As I was going up, the barrel hit me
10. as it was going down. And went up on to the fourth floor. The barrel
11. fell to the ground, and burst. Now I was heavier than the barrel.
12. As I was going down, the barrel hit me on its way up.
13. I let go of the rope when I hit against the ground. The barrel was now heavier.
14. It dropped on me, and knocked me down out. I lost consciousness.
15. The student was given $18 as a compensation.
