LAN HAY’S STORY.
The story which Inn Hay told a’ the dinner in aid of Queen Charlotte V Ma ternity Hospital deserv i.- a wider cir dilation. It concerns a young -lockbroker who, a- a result of troubles in tlie eity, had 10.-t ail hi- cap.tab He went to Hie proprietor of a travelling luenager.e and asked foi a job, and m lepiy wa- toid. “Our performing chimpanzee jeeenlly passed, away. It you care to be sew a up in ho- skin and do a fevv gymnastic stunts on the horizontal bar you can have £d a week two! ail found,’’ The stockbroker accepted the offer, and met with considerable success, until one after noon, in attempting a more than usually spectacular feat, he let go lus grasp, crashed through a partition, and found himself in the lion's den before a ferocious looking Hon. He yelled for help until the lion lent over to him and .said. “Don't be silly, obi man; you're not the only stockbroker in this menagerie.”
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Mt Benger Mail, 16 September 1931, Page 4
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