REMINISCENCES OF BERT DRAGE 



from which he never recovered. He was taken 

 home, but he died in about a week. 



All my relations had been fond of horses and 

 hunting. When we came to live at Brampton my 

 brother John and myself used to ride into North- 

 ampton Grammar School. My brother Frank 

 went to the Wellingborough Grammar School. 

 Later on he left, and John and I went to the same 

 school. I was very happy there and very proud 

 to get into the football team. We played soccer, 

 and I remember I played inside forward. I really 

 was not much good, but the man on the outside 

 left was very good and he made use of me when he 

 was in difficulties. I was very keen on the game. 

 I think John left a little before I did. 



My father financed the auctioneer business built 

 up by my Uncle John Woods who died, and his 

 son, Cecil Woods, then carried on with the 

 business. When my brother John left school my 

 father put him into the business, but he did not 

 like it and so remained on my father's farm. When 

 I left school I was put into the auctioneer business 

 that my brother John had given up. I kept on for 

 about a year and then I gave it up and stayed at 

 home to help on my father's farm. 



When my father died very suddenly in 1902, I 

 found we had got over 1,000 acres of land to con- 

 tend with. I was very fortunate in getting different 

 people to take over all the outlying portions, and 

 then I felt I would try to find someone to manage 



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