The “Ugly Man” Contest.

“I was spending my holidays in the country and went to the Show,” says a well-known Works Manager on the N.Z.R. “There were competitions of all kinds, but nothing in which I could compete till the ‘Ugly Man’ contest was announced, and I stood up ‘with the bells on.’ The judge walked down the line, and stopping in front of me for a moment, said: ‘You are making it a bit too hot, aren't you?’ ‘Why, what do you mean?’ ‘Well,’ said he, ‘this is not the World's International Championship; this is only a friendly local competition!’ He evidently looked on me as a professional ‘pot hunter’.”

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