The chairman of an automobile association was praising the as automob id ists.
"The French are a remarkable and odd people," he said. "In fencing, and, above all, in motoring, they excel. In football, >n racing, and, above all, in shooting, they are nowhere. "Three French sportsmen were qnce out after robins and cuckoos. A robin appeared overhead ; jJJbey all fired, but the robin escaped. "Then they asked, all together; "Who missed that time ?" Employees in salt works scarcely ever erst choflera or scarlet fever.
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 7
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85Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 7
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