Page 6 Advertisements Column 1

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2394, 8 January 1909, Page 6

EXPERIENCE TEACHES. A few of the professional members of the Eminent Football Team were talking over things in the dressingroom- . - “Who's the new chap the captain’s putting on to-day?” asked Biggins, the half-back. “That fellow with the eye-glasses?” answered Husky, the iforward. “Oh, he’s one of those clever chaps who write football tales. You know the sort —where the hero gets' the ball, keeps it to himself for a couple of hundred yards, either knocks out or completely baffles every member of the opposing team, kicks three or four goals in splendid style, and does a dozen other desperate things-j and, of course, wins the haughty heiress, who -is - watching the game from the grandstand. He’s going to try a to-day, just for the sake of o little actual experience. I wonder if the haughty heiress is here?” Two hours later. The patient has opened his eyes, and the whiterobed nurse looks, relieved. ‘‘Nurse,” he whispers, “I- s’pose my togs are around .somewhere? There’s a typewritten manuscript in the breast-pocket of. my cent. Get it for me, will you? I want to burn