It fs fortunate that this is hol ay time, otherwise the class-rooms. of Shanighal would witness the scene of if. Satur day's racing reports are' correct. rucegoer who had quite an affect for Austvalla, cither on. paper or cense of a personal visit, decided, In the absence of expert "Information regarding the relative merits of the certain race, to put her Newfoundland. Convinced that, she was paying a tribute to the attrac Hons of Australia by this gesture the lady Was perfectly" happy" and. happier still when she discovered that! only one other operator had any! trust in the same pony and that it had come in. third. The pleasant little dividend of $977 weerued. Tt may be argued, of course, that the bot indicated a' better "knowledge of horseflesh than of geography. 'There can be no valid objection to. that view. Yet it Is practically certain' Uhat had the schools been open, the neldent would have been used to illustrate the theory that geography] Ig an overrated subject. Itappily, by the time the holidays end, this ehal-Tonge to scholastic wisdom will have! been forgotten,
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