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“WHY SHOULD I GO ON?’’ 1 EXETER, August 24. Mr. W. J. A. Grant, the 83-year-old explorer, who publicly announced this week that as he /s “no use to anybody, and gives a lot of trouble,” lie should : be given a double dose of sleeping : draiight, was in good spirits when I spoke to him to-day. “I am by no means under immediate sentence to death,” he said. “When I ask the doctors for a double sleeping draught they simp!}' laugh and won’t Ido it, so I must wait until my time peonies. ■ * “I have some ' people coming for| Haldon races next week, and I hope to| be able to go with them. I was in London for my usual three weeks recently, and went to the Eton and Harrow match.” “I have had a good life, and made the best of it,” Mr. Grant continued. “But what is the good of going on liv-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1934, Page 11
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