PUBLICAN'S PROBLEM -

Billy Cock once owned the Agnew Hotel but he was too fond of sampling his own wares and soon found himself deep in debt.

Eventually in despair, he went to the edge of a mine shaft, shot himself and fell in. His body was finally located and he had to be fished out with a grapnel.

His wake was held at the hotel where Billy was laid out on a corrugated iron sheet while the last of his grog was finished up.

Funeral goers even shook his hand to congratulate him on such a good wake but Billy was by now well past caring.

Billy's brother, Tommy, took over the pub but seems to have done little better financially than the late Billy.

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