RURAL WIT
A motorist reaching four cross-roads in the wooded by-ways of Essex, where signposts are now absent, hailed a local resident to. inquire the way. “ Can you tell me where that road leads ? ” “ Don’t know.” “ Then that one? ” pointing lo the right. “ Don’t know that either.” Then to the left; again, “Don’t know.” “You don’t know much, do you?” said, the motorist. “No,” replied the countryman, “but I’m not lost.”—‘ Daily Mirror.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 3
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73RURAL WIT Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 3
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