HIS "RACE BOOKS" BLEAT.
« CEILL RENCONTRE. Selling raco books ta tho train tio night before the races is generally a lucrative business, and tlio vendor can v-sually relv upon finding feveral customers in each carriage. At Hastings, however, he bad the unique experience of a severe frost in two cars. Seeing tho windows labelled "Reserved," he founded ill thinking ho had sitruck a big oongeniil party of true sports. But stern repressive faces and stiffened blhek cloth backs stayed his blatant "Ifax-s Books" bloat. The cars were full of Baptist ministers on their way to the Napier Conference.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 4
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