The Archive · 1893

The Country Club

ig now incorporated; let us hope the shareholders of the New Race Course Company will get some rest at nights, for the new departure is entirely at thei suggestion. We may express the hope that the chairs and seats of the new institution will be an improvement on those which at the recent Race Meeting spoiled the Indies' dresses and the gentlemen' trousers. Some people plausibly hinted that this was a deliberate plant of the local tailors' and dressmakers,' but I think the weight of evidence goes to show it was an oversight on the part of the Stewards. It was heustrending to hear a local Scot pathetically call out as he walked off with a chair hanging from his catamstrophe—Ma Saw. both breeks Ma puir Sawboth brecks

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