JOY RIDES.
BY PALMERSTON YOUNGSTERS
(By Telegraph.—Press 'Association.) PAIMERSTOiN N., Last Night. The fascination of "joy rides" lias reached to the primer classes. Two Palmerston youngsters, not over six years of age, slipped slyly to precarious seats on the side step at the rear of the guard's van of tllie WoodviWe train this aftarndon, bent on a "joy ride," and the train proceeded at the ordinary pace through Palmerston Square, where two serene young faces returned the , townsfoiks' looks of horror with easy unconcern, and, as the speed quickened, their hold of the world appeared to grow unsteady, and shortly before reaching Terrace End, two miles out, they tumbled ofif in unison, rolled over like two rubber balls, struggled to their little legs, and ran home for their lives. Nobody seenis to know their names.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 6
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135JOY RIDES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 6
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