An incident in Sport.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 131, 21 November 1901, Page 3

An incident in Sport.

0 “ All’s fair in l ive and war, and there is one young man who wishes he had essayed the lat'er instead of having anything to do wi.h the former. He was a sporting young man ana had varying luck. His creditors like to get him on successful slays, and he had a good few creditors. Ho also had a girl, and the girl loved him, or said so. Now, the end of last month, he was what he euphoniously calls “ fly blown.” his creditors were pressing, blue papers began to get common, and his only assets were his fiancee and a few tiekets in sweeps and things. Now, one of those tickets was “ all right.” and our sport awoke one morning to the postman’s ring aid ft cheque for £4OO. He rushed off to hi Esmeralda. “ Essie,” he said, “I’m going to banka this little lot to your account, aud then let ’em all come with their blue papers,” He clid so. The winning number was printed in the local paper, and our sport d> luged with demands from creditors' He had a warm time, judgment summonses and other legal paraphernalia were set going, and he merely grinned. He had nothing to lose. No ? Well, yes. Ha want to seek his “ Essie” to borrow a few pounds, and was surprised to to find she was not at home. “Where has she gone?” “Well, 1 don’t rightly know if it’s Melbourne or Capetown, ” 'said Essie’s landlady. But she said an uncle in the Old Country had left her a fortune, so she married a young man as was a fellow-lodger with her, and went.” That sport is somewhere in the Wairarapa now following a new profession. Some people call them “ travellers,” others swagmen. He has gone out of the “ smart ” business.—Free Lanco.