ITS CLOSING DAY.
BY
SINBAD.
Otir carnival has reached its closing day. Olympia and races now shut down. The punter homeward plods his weary way, and dull hard toil once more comes back to town. How many came in hope a week ago, who now in disappointment travel back,- with nothing for their squandered coin to show save tickets on dark horses that proved black? liow many miners from the wild West Coast will shortly to their bush-clad hills have sped? They may or may not have fulfilled their boast that they would paint the Garden City red. How many squatters to their homesteads fade, a look of startled wonder in their eye? A visit to Olympia they paid and purchased cars they didn’t mean to buy. And oh 1 the schoolboys who were at the Show and had on sweets and fizz a high blow out. A sadder, sicker lot, they homeward go—there'll be a lot in bed to-day, no doubt. Oh! Many will be feeling the effect of all this week of jubilation gay,, but who is there who mourns his pocket wrecked? The verdict is “ ’Twas worth it anyway."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18311, 12 November 1927, Page 1
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192ITS CLOSING DAY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18311, 12 November 1927, Page 1
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