A woman who was going to the tropics had to be inoculated against typhoid. She was unable to keep a dinner appointment which she had made for the next day, and sent her daughter, aged 10, to make her excuses.
“And what did they say?” she asked the child.
“Exactly what you told me,” was the reply. “I said, ‘Mummy can’t come because she was intoxicated yesterday and has a bad headache’.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 52, 20 November 1946, Page 5
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72Untitled Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 52, 20 November 1946, Page 5
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