HE BOASTS NO MORE.
After a hard day's work, thirty commercial travellers were sitting -^n. tne smoke-room chatting and J»ujfing at their pipes. .me majority of them remarked that they had been wonderfully successfully in collecting customers' accounts that day. One of them, a noted boaster, aggressively announced that he would fike to bet he^coujd enow more money than anyone in the room. " Right you are; 111 show my money against yours," -» -«J» J^lSL^gt tion that the one who money takes the lot and stan& «inla round the room." v>£: .^ The money was placed »*«£ ™» hats by the participants, and when U«t was done a^third. party "Wjk^fij over £2000 belonging to the bwljj commercial. V l^ ?* tfwLSJ" JS' removed a paltry three^alfpei^ waj discovered! Out of his ™»£f gj boasting gentleman had to pay wr thirty brinks, and the <^^^ h^J^ room did not forget to make them «i expensive as possible.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9303, 1 August 1908, Page 3
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150HE BOASTS NO MORE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9303, 1 August 1908, Page 3
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