SPORTING STORY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 1731, 28 September 1922, Page 7

SPORTING STORY.

A good story has just been related by me (says a Napier writer) by a friend who vouches for its accuracy. A Hawke’s Bay sportsman recently won £lO at a meeting, and on his return home placed the money in a pocket of an old garden coat, not being desirous that his wife should know of his success. A few days afterwards he found himself in want of funds, and so decided to again become possessed of the £lO. On going to the place where the garden coat was Jiung he, however, found that it was gone. He instituted the most diligent search for it, but all his efforts to locate its whereabouts ended in failure. He then approached his “better half,” and asked if she knew where it was, and she replied that she had charitably given it away to a person who had called for old clothes! The man is now lamenting not only the loss of the £lO, but the fact that he had not taken his wife into his confidence anent his winnings.