HOW HE GOT HIS REFUND.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 December 1919, Page 3

HOW HE GOT HIS REFUND.

Many girls whose boys were away at the front rakod in their deferred pay for two or three years and cheerfully married other blokes. Some diggers took legal action, others chose to grin and bear it, but one out Goulburn (N.S.W.) way has taken a third course. He called one Sunday morning on the man who had married his girl, and entered a protest: •' You got my money with the girl," he explained, and I want a refund. The other lad objected, so the digger peeled off, gave the successful rival the father and the mother of a beating, put on his coat, Jand said: " That's the preliminary canter. I'm coming to see you every Sunday, Dan, and every Sunday I'm going to give you a hell of a hiding or take one quid off what's dv« to me." He waa true to his word. The next Sunday he got to Dan as before. On the third Sunday Dan met him at the gate with five pounds and a saddled horse. " Here's five quid in advance," he said hastily, " and if you'll take Ponto here and five cows you needn't come and see me again." It was a deal.—Smith's Weekly.