Society Motormen.
Apropos of the growing popularity of the motor car business as an opening for "younger -eons" — and there are upwards of 30 young men of noble families now engaged in learning to be mechanics — an ex- ' eel Lent story is going round of a young man nearly related to a duke, who had been told off by his employer to take a car to the house of a lady of great wealth but humble origin. j He made himself so charming that the , lady, when he brought her back to her ' house in Belgrave square, pre->sed a halfcrown into his hand, and — "You won't spend it on drink, I hope," she added. , The chauffeur returned to his employer — j rjims-elf, as the story goes, the son of a j baron — and indignantly told his tale. "You're- jolly lucky, my boy," was the employer's reply; "when lasfc I saw the old woman she only gave me a shilling."' — London Leader. j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2707, 31 January 1906, Page 89
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162Society Motormen. Otago Witness, Issue 2707, 31 January 1906, Page 89
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