HORSEPOWER
[By WHIM WHAM.] I take no Interest in the Horse. That obsolescent Brute i.as no Appeal for me; there is no Cour.se Where I would ever wish to go. Nor Tote nor Bookie shall obtain The Little that I have to spend. Oh, And Nothing gives me so much Pain As the Announcer’s vile Crescendo! The Voice that bellows round the Bar, The Voice that stutters, gabbles, bawls. That nethermost Abyss of Blah, My Sport-allergic Soul appals. And now. kind Heaven! the Government And Legislature of'the Land Are plucking their intelligent Heads from the economic Sand, To argue the momentous Matter Of Betting on or off the Course. Whether the Former or the Latter. The Totqm of our Tribe, the Horse. Requires of us this solemn Choice. A Referendum let there be! The People’s Will, the People’s Voice. August, immutable, and free, Must be invoked, the Votes be cast. A wakened Nation choose its Lot While the Free World looks on aghast— Shall we have Betting Shops or not?
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 6
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