SAME THING, ONLY BETTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 105, 1 May 1909, Page 2

SAME THING, ONLY BETTER.

" Tommy Burns used to give boxing lessons during his stay in England," said a lawyer. "He was an excellent teacher, "but it required no little fortitude to be a pupil of his. They say a young man once went to the great fighter and arranged for a course of ten lessons. At the end of the second lesson, pretty well battered up, the young man said he thought he had had enough.

"'Enough?' said the teacher in astonishment. 'Why, you haven't learned '

"' I know,' the young man interrupted. ' But I'll tell you how it is, Mr Burns. There's a fellow I dislike, and I arranged for this course so as to lick him in a fight. Bxit on second thoughts I have decided it will be just as well to send him down here to you to take the rest of the lessons.' "