A SINGULAR SWAP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 3

A SINGULAR SWAP.

. FARMING AND '.BILLIARDS; Thero is an interesting-bit'of history attached: ,tq. .Mr.. James Wa11.... Only, a.- short time ■■ ago,=hc. ; -was,'a' progressive' farmer, who had carved.out"a homestead in the wilderness some .distance"from Martinborough.-'Ho went' out into tho wilderness as'a' young man;. aml : slept at nights in a whare. In process,of time-he became a'breeder, of prize stock,..and-one of the principal'producers of draught horses in'the Dominion';" He also dabbled 'in Southdowns. .His .farm became one; of the well-tilled properties'.in the dis-trict.y-Thcn; came .this astonishing change' He cichanged. his farm for a Wellington city billiard-table business, tho'ownir'of that concern taking .-'oyer -thoMartinborough property,.;and' becoiriing ; a .farmor, and the farmer taking over the'city.business; arid turning, ;but billiard-tables in great' : style,- and making .a' riariie. for -himself in his newlyadopted fine. art. It was truly an incongruous, exchange.""'.Mr. .Wall,' it is said, scarcely know how' to hold a billiard cue in' 1 those-days'. ■ But if to-day a'devotee 'of, the chalk and cue wants to know if a certain table pjays a true. game.;' ho will' find in Mr.AVall just the.individual who caii.tell'him all the points.of'tho.article, in : the samo way &s, in the.old days,'"he"would'run over the points''of 'a finer up-standing draught horse. His particular breed of billiard-tables is tho fashionable one known as 1 the oval.