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Otaki Mail, 1 November 1922, Page 3

The latesi form of foolishness in London is a game entitled beaver! Ii cannot be played without insult and annoyance to a. number of quite respectable members of the community, but this in no way deters its enthusiastic exponents. The players start at zero when they walk abroad. The score is the record of the number of bearded men accosted (score book in hand), with the exclamation “Beaver!” Highest score, of course, wins unless assassinated first). ’A gentleman going down to help make yet, more laws for us was startled out of a profound reverie outside Westminster by a grubby urchin’s dirty pointed finger and shouted “Beaver!” says a correspondent. He resented it keenly, and was in no wav satisfied by The explanation of the constable on point. duty. But it is not only little boys that do this sort of thing. Young women, who should know better, are just as bad. Thus in Bona Street a red-bearded man was empurpled to inarticulate fury by a fashionably dressed su'd 'excited young ladv who rushed at him ’with these words: “King Beaver, six sets ami game!*'