THE HAIR TRICK

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1927, Page 4

THE HAIR TRICK

In the late hours of a recent Saturday night quite, a number of participants in a gala were gathered in Main St, Gore, interested in the spectacle of a mail of no small proportions seated on the asphalt path who was offering a small slim of money to anyone who could lift him on to his feet by the liair of his head (reports the “Ensign”). Several there were who saw an opportunity of lining their pockets, but their attempts to raise the one seated by this painful process were unavailing. Then there came on the scene a diminutive elderly gentleman who immediately began to take an active interest in the proceedings and himself tried it without success. Not to he outdone, lie made a wager with the one seated that he could not. lie lifted in any similar manner. The wager was taken, they changed places and it was only then that the humor of the situation was shown. The diminutive gentleman, now seated, removed liis hat to expose a cranium practically devoid of any hirsute growth. Needless to say the money changed hands, and, amid shouts of daughter from the crowd, the small man continued his homeward journey.