A STORY OF THE KING'S JOCKEY.
Herbert Jones was in a bar-parlor in the West End of London a short time iigo, and a man in mufti was swaggering about life in the Army, and asserting that everyone ought "to be proud to serve the King. "Even you, my little man," he said, turning to Jones condescendingly, "ought to look forward to serving His Majesty tome day." "I have served him for years past," was the jockey's quiet rejoinder. The man guffawed. "Where, I should like to know?" he asked.
"Oh, about the same place as you, I fxpect—Epsom Downs and Sandown. Park."
The laugh was on Jones' side then, as the bystanders showed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 4
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