BEAR AND WOMAN'S PURSE.
A FINANCIAL TIT-BIT.
TWO TEN SHILLING NOTES.
[from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, July 15. A girl the other afternoon began to think that some, at least, of the bears at the Zoo have had an education in finance, and she was just beginning to connect this up with the Stock Exchange, when the keeper came to her assistance —but she lost her money all the same. She had dropped her purse into the bears' pit. The bear, of course, promptly tore it open, fondly imagining perhaps that it contained, in its inmost recesses, a nicely roasted peanut. But no. By the time the bear had scattered the contents over the ground it was seen that among them were two 10s notes, some silver and coppers, and powder puff, a mirror, and lipstick, and all the other mysteries that women carry about with them these days. The bear had no use at the moment for powder or lipstick, but retired into the inner den with a 10s note and the mirror, and refused to come out for the rest of the day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 12
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185BEAR AND WOMAN'S PURSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 12
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