ANYTHING FOR A WAGER
At Liverpool, a barber undertook to shave 60 men in an hour. He had won the wager in three-fourths of the time. He proceeded, however, till the expiration of the hour, when he had shaved 82 men —in masterly style, was the timekeeper’s verdict. A very eccentric man was Mr Huddy, the venerable postmaster of Lismore, Ireland. In his ninety-seventh year, wearing a red nightcap, and carrying a common pig driver’s whip, he travelled for a wager from Lismore to Fermoy in a dongaron oyster tub, drawn by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose, and a hedgehog.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 7
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103ANYTHING FOR A WAGER Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 7
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