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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 7

"Made in England,1" one -of the best steoplechas© horses in Franco broke its neck at the Inet obstacle in a steeplechase at St.- Owen. ■ ..

A. tiixicab driver, taking a passenger not long ago from Wnking to a shooting- party near Godulming. Surrey, in a district where several tragedies have nccuired lately, lost his way and found JiiiTLsclf in a wild and desolate spot. Hearing a tni? r,:i tho windov,-, ho loked iound und «;a»v liis h\rt> apparently pivsontiiig a double-barrelled gun tit his licad. Tii o driver dropped on to h:s ki-i"c'j and sfrpamwJ, "Good ■-•v-ens, sir, don't shoot.'' The mnn with th^ gun burst out laughing, and explained that bo vis putting his gun together when tbo lnu^xJo touched tho glass. •

"It's ill arguing wich a hungry man** saystlio old proverb; but it is \vo?se' playing tricks with a sick one. When tho doctor orders Brandy he means real good stuff. Giro the patient Martell s •and both h4 and his doctor, will b,Q satisfied.