A man who, it is stated, has not yet been captured, is playing some extraordinary freak* in Dublin. He goes out after dark with a pair of scissors, and, seizing little girls, outs part of their hair off, and then decamps. Three girls, named Doyle, Hows and M'Grata, have been thus treated, and tha man, on being pursued, has succeeded in escaping. An old Southerh sport sayslf the present V. tendency of racing continues much longer, Bnobody will care whether he ha* a thorough* bred or not. In these days a horse that can win at from five to seven furlongs is all that a man want* for winning the beat pWee*. and for such races* horse with a cloudy redigrM la as good ae a thoroughbred,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 309, 8 June 1889, Page 2
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127Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 309, 8 June 1889, Page 2
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