Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 1:00.0 | The slim-built man is struggling to make his way through the crowd. He was wearing a shabby labourer suit and a battered silk hat that was far too big for his head. |
| 1:05.0 | It was fixed with an advertisement for a well-known Newcastle hairdresser. |
| 1:10.0 | The band of lads surrounding him were cheering and surging around him, |
| 1:13.6 | blocking his progress and forcing him towards the river. |
| 1:16.6 | He wasn't helped by the fact that he was trying to push a heavy wheelbarrow |
| 1:20.6 | through the ranks of his over-enthusiastic supporters, |
| 1:23.6 | and on the side of that barrow read the following message. John Martin, better known as Sawdust Jack, from Newcastle to London. |
| 1:33.3 | Sawdust Jack did not have time to spare. |
| 1:36.3 | He was in a race and he needed to get out of Newcastle. |
| 1:39.3 | He proposed to cover at least 30 miles a day, and he was set on overtaking another |
| 1:44.2 | wheelbarrow pedestrian and beating him to the streets of London. |
| 1:49.7 | That race was somewhat lopsided. |
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