MYSTERY BOOTBLACK

Taihape Daily Times, 15 September 1919, Page 6

MYSTERY BOOTBLACK

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Tilere is at .luystel'iouS man in London who is earning money at the rate of £7OO a. year by shining boots. He i:5 the man who has his “pitch” inside the Beaver iHut, in the Strand, and his takings average £2 a. day. Mystery, as well as romance, has its part in his history. He is :1 well-educated 1112111 and joined up as a seamen in the 4th Flotilla. -‘He has friends in British Guiana, and is anxious to return to that colony. _ ’ He refuses to divulge his nanle, “be _:l.use,’.’ he says, “it would upset lnv people ifithezjr discovered I. was a sheer shiner. \Vlle’n 1 was dcmobiiised I itcould not ‘get ‘a free passage‘ out U,’ British Guiana because I was bum 3,1 ‘England, and then I thought of this :game. I start'at 11 am. and am [working continuously unail 7_‘3o pm.’ charging threepence a time, lam saving up, and in about three months’ time I shall have enough to buy 3 ..~=.ma]l cocoa plantation in British luiana.” '