Tommy Let-it-alone

New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 9

Tommy Let-it-alone

A query : * Dear Rev. Editor,— To settle a discussion- among some members, of our club : Would you advise against " backing cme's.Jancy " even- in a strictly fair, moderate), zyid very "' occasional 'way, at hofrserapes ? ' - ' . The answer:. .Son, you ask for counsel. And our ' counsel on the subject (.which, of course, has no force of precept)' is icst" summed up in the dictum of Mark Twain :,' There 1 are^ two* occasions in a man's life whenhe should .not ' wager— when he can't, afford it, a ; nd when" he can '.. Bujt'; if, any of you yqung men^are bgrit upon ' backing you£\ fancys^,-4licn let it be' the^ reliable flyer on which (accoEding, to his biographer) William Terriss often staked, Vyet {never }ost and never won— 'a little iilly called Common ', Sense, rid-den by Tommy Let-it-alone '. > ,»--"«!„