Cross-Eyed Luck

This was published in the Buchan Observer in March 1937 (under the name “Anzac”) and describes an incident that Barrowsgate was involved in when in California in 1911. He was working as a horseman for an apple grower near Castroville and one of his jobs was to transport migrant Chinese apple pickers from the orchards to the town. On one occasion, the horses bolted and Barrowsgate barely managed to control the wagon and its passengers as the horses galloped into town. The story contains what would now be regarded as racial stereotypes of Chinese people.