' Dad bought a racehorse and she turned out a world beater. Cornstalk was her name and she cleaned up all the prizes round the country race meetings and finally Dad and Jim took her to Melbourne and bunged her in the Melbourne Cup. Dad said he'd go to Melbourne to look after the horse and Mum said alright and I'll go to look after you, so of course the whole dashed family went. Crooks and shady bookmakers tried to nobble the horse, but what happens to those crooks and books is good to see. Cousin Harold had a tough time getting his weight down. He says that every time he looked at a beef steak and kidney pudding, his weight would fly up half a stone. One night in Melbourne Dad came across Jim taking an actress to.supper, "strewth!" said Dad, "that boys goin' it, first he takes on racehorses, now actresses. Next thing he'll be drinkin' shandy gaffe." But come and renew old acquaintances with all the Hayseeds at the Picture Theatre to-night.'
Source:
'The Hayseeds Melbourne Cup', The Muswellbrook Chronicle, 7 September 1918, p.2.
