MYSTERY BOOTBLACK.
Tiic-e is a mysterious mau in Loudon who is earning mou-'j Hi the rale of I*7oo i year by shining boots.- He is the mau who has his " pitch '' inside the Beaver licit, in the Strand, and his takings average i2 a d iy. Mystery, as well as romance, h-ts its part in Ins story, lie is a well-educated man and joined up as a seaman in the til U'.olilla. He has IneiuN in Briti.-b (iuiaua, and is anxious to return to that colony. He refuses to divulge his name " be-c-iu*e "he sqy*. " it. would upset my people if they discovered I was a shoeshiner. When I was demobilised I could ri"t get a free passage out to British Juixua because l wns bom in England Hid then I thought of this gnuie. 1 star! «t ii a.m. and am working continuously until 7 p.m., charging threepence a time. I am saving up; and iu about three months' time I shall have enough to buy hj small cocoa plantation in British (•uiana.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1208, 19 November 1919, Page 6
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174MYSTERY BOOTBLACK. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1208, 19 November 1919, Page 6
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