SIMPLE STORIES
BORROWING WAS KEEPING BOUT 12 months before the last war, those of you who are old enough will know which one, Bill Smith did the odd jobs on a farm situated seven miles from Pipiriki. Included among these jobs was a trip to Pipiriki each Saturday with a supply of eggs and vegetables for the local hotel, for which he collected the money on the last Saturday of each month. The last Saturday in October also happened to be annual race day for the Pipiriki Jockey Club. Bill had always liked horses, and he had decided to take a chance, It was the old story. Bill had £15 of the farmer’s money in his pocket, His employer need never know if Bill borrowed it, and anyhow, how could he lose? Didn’t Bill have a sure tip? So Bill took the £15 and put it on Helpful, a long-priced certainty, that had been given to him by the kitchen maid whose young man knew a chap who was friendly with the trainer’s daughter. Helpful duly won, and paid £21, and Bill. returned to the farm, paid over the egg and vegetable money, and nobody was any the wiser. He owns the fares to-day.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 208, 18 June 1943, Page 6
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204SIMPLE STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 208, 18 June 1943, Page 6
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