"Backing 'Em "

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1916, Page 2

"Backing 'Em "

» ("Written for The. Chronicle.) In Shannon, and in Kereru, and all along the creek, the "'sports" are piling up their glue, and conning "weights" till all is blue; the races com© this week. ""Lady Louisa" is the cry of folk some reckon very spry; and old New York is n.t.b.—a butcher-hoy told me. That Cherry Blossom's bound to bloom; she is a mare that can't run "stoom" ; I heard this in the train. "Watch Aruake second day," a flaxmill man to me did say; "yiju'li see him win again. Old Darby Paul will see 'em through, when mud is thick as twice-boiled glue; he battles all the way. He runs no fancy sixty-two, but when he's got three miles to do he lasts it with the rest." I asked "him" would "he" back them all? On me he let his sad glance fall; Why, do me puce, he bridling said, I'm paying out my weekly lead for bete I lost last year! But if 'you 7 go down Trentham way you'll find it dinkum what I Bay; the SBannon mare is hard to b»at; the 'Waki 'chaser jumps a treat; put in your brass and don't be cowedl; he'll line the jing-banged coloured crowd." I left him still erupting phrase end owing coin to other days.

BELfIHAZZAR BTNKS Levin, July 10, 1916.