Bought and Sold.
Once upon a time, in the land of Cathay, a jockey^ sold a> fraee) '13n£ pieces of silver given to the faithless one were spentupon wine, which-'made Mi >tdn|;ae wag to such an extent that his victims suspected a swindle had'been -perpetrated. Next day his employer with .hpuejred words, and the bribe of., a : ,^5 note, extracted from him the came of the man' who bad. induced him to sell the race. The jockey sard^it was a man named Carbuncle Boyle, whereupon the master took from .the'faithlgss?3ffe~the money given as a bribe, and ejected him summarily from his presence.—Moral: Those who can be bought must expect to be sold.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3889, 16 June 1881, Page 2
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112Bought and Sold. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3889, 16 June 1881, Page 2
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