THAT SHABBY STRANGER.
Lord Spencer, although a first-rate rider and a daring man with hounds, is not a good shot. There is an amusing story related of him during hit, tenure of office as President of Wimbledon Meeting. As is pretty generally known, persons firing at and missing the targets are liable to a tine of half-a-crowni. One day the range officer noticed a rather shabbily dressed man of uukempt appearanoe firing at the target . As he was ' missing' with considerable ease and rapidity, the range officer thought it best to claim the full extent of tiie tines before the seedily. dressed man had got too heavily into debt. With this end in view, he accosted the stranger, reckoned up the sum which he was by the rules of the Assocation, entitled to claim,and requested the would be marksinau to hand over the required amount. The stranger fumbled in his pockets for a considerable time, and at last was obliged to coufess that he had come out without any money, and his name was Lord Spencer, aud that he was President of the Association. The range officer, of course, apologized, but the fiues were eventually paid.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)
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196THAT SHABBY STRANGER. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)
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