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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 11 (February 1, 1940)

Pursuing the Improbable

Pursuing the Improbable.

Much of man's pursuing to-day is confined to abstract quarries such as an ambition to catch up with the hypothetical golfing achievements of that mendacious old bore, Colonel Bogey, getting as close as possible to the wildest improbability on a chess board, or getting the wood on the fickle “Kitty” on a bowling green.

When the concrete is pursued it usually takes the form of stag, rabbit, fish or football.

The object of this document is to glance fleetingly at the atavistic adumbrations of “homo roamo” in his relaxed moments. The basic idea of all pastimes is to pursue something whether it be an idea, an ideal, or something round that rolls, soars, bounds or trickles, in addition to the furred, feathered and finned children of the wild.