THIRTEEN
Thirteen is not always an unlucky number. On 13th September, Mrs Harry Pettifield, of Condobolin, one of the leading country towns in New South Wales, gave birth to her thirteenth >fchild. The baby weighed exactly 131b. But even this extraordinary concatenation of thirteens did not frighten the good mother. Not even the fact .that the three thirteens totalled her age, 39. Strangely enough, too, a photograph of the mother and her thirteenth child, appeared in one of the Sydney papers when the youngster was 13 days old. The child's grandfather, influenced by this remarkable sequence of thirteens, backed the 13th horse in the list of acceptances for the Epsom Handicap. It won too! Quite naturally, the family; horse in the Metropolitan Handicap. It won, too! Quite naturally, the family have taken a ticket in Tattersall's sweep in the name of the "Thirteens Syndicate." The sweep has not yet "been, drawn, but_ no doubt the family are already building their castles in anticipation of their success. i
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 9
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167THIRTEEN Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 9
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