The old coloured man had fought in the Cuban War and had drawn a pension ever since. While he was laborious writing his name in the space l'or the payee, the bank clerk perkily remarked that it must bo nice to draw a pension for life just for chasing a few Spaniards around. “Boss/* replied Rastus, “you get me wrong. I wasn’t the chaser; I was the chasce.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 124, 27 May 1941, Page 6
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