Makthg a. Bias.—Oα the second evening of the races (eaya the Igatraropa Star) an e&terpriamg spieler called at this office, and was gratmtoealy supplied -with some brown paper wrappers. A few minutes later he had borrowed a basket from the nearest baker's shop, and was trotting' round with curiously screwed up paper parcel*, inside of which large gifts were acid to be located. The parcels wese formed of a toil of strong brown paper, covered over with tissue paper, neatly twisted and pushed in at the ends. The artist had a small packet of silver ingeniously attached to the waistband of his sleeve, and as he offered the parcels for sale, at Is each, he rattled the money to convince the boy ere of the value-within. It is ncoriliwn to say that his customers—and he found a lot of victims—found themselves—like the parcels—sold. The baker wa» also " sold," for the spieler has taken wing—basket and
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7252, 11 January 1889, Page 5
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