THE PASSING SHOW.
(By THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.)
shouldn't dear old Mallara Surman, of Hor/path, Oxford, get a paragraph in » Dominion paper as StLugk TRADITION. ■Ms essential occupation. Is in fact/'tlie oldest earth-stopper in fthe county. What is earth-stopper, sez you? Well tins important official goes round with a spade when the fox hunting season is on, looks into the and if he finds the fox, the vixen or the family away from home, fills up the hole so that the do°Z the dukes, earls, 'baronets, squires, ladies and huntsmen will he able to cry, Tally-ho!" rushing about on extremely expen sive horses after a fox that knows no better '010 than the one dear old M-allam stopped wi his spade. Mallam, in short, is part of Merrie England, a bit of the landscape, a piece or history, one of the landmarks of the Constitution, almost a par in Magna Ohaita. And looking at the sweet old face of the earthstopper, he seems so innocent that you c hardly think he'd have cheek enough to stop a tram.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 8
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178THE PASSING SHOW. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 8
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