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at that time ; the Exchange had two good tables. 

 George Bonnor, the giant Austrahan cricketer, was a 

 big ungainly boy, all angles. I suppose he would be 

 about seventeen then, but he had already developed 

 a game, and could make big breaks ; he was very hot 

 stuff at the game in after years. Incidentally Mid- 

 winter, another great cricketer, about whom one was 

 uncertain whether he belonged to Australia or Glou- 

 cestershire, was also a fine billiard player. Cricketers 

 and pigeon shots have frequently excelled at billiards. 

 From noting everything of interest it was realised 

 that something had to be done in the way of making 

 a living, for money was very tight, and from staying in 

 a comfortable house with my uncle the idea was given 

 me that my stay was up. There was nothing else for 

 it but to find a room at one of the innumerable board- 

 ing houses. What comfort ! they all had decent bath- 

 rooms. I had a fiver left out of what I had arrived 

 with. The job came all right. It was to manage 

 a number of exhibits in the coming Exhibition, which 

 had been consigned to a big Sydney firm; it was a 

 task. There was every variety of business represented. 

 I had the whole list of names and particulars given as 

 to which firms had sent a show-case in which to put 

 their exhibit, and others for whom some sort of stand 

 had to be erected. A handy carpenter was put at my 

 disposal and authority to get odds and ends to make 

 stands with. Everything was in a chaotic state, and 

 the opening of the Exhibition due in a fortnight. The 

 marked-out spaces had to be discovered first, and then 

 a hunt made to find the many packing-cases which 

 made up each exhibit. Try to imagine it ; there 

 was a big furniture show — a bedroom complete and a 

 dining-room. That was easy, but the bed was taken 

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