A Happy Inspiration.
An English “ Tommy ,” while stationed in a Flemish village, wanted to buy a tooth-brush. Being unable to speak either French or Flemish, he could not manage to make the people understand what he wanted. After several unsuccessful attempts, he hit on a brilliant idea, and entering a little shop, he proceeded to imitate the action of brushing his teeth. At first the old dame shook her head, then her face suddenly lit up with a smile. Placing a ladder against the wall, she searched for several minutes in some cardboard boxes on a top shelf. She at last found whit she wanted, and triumphantly handed him not a tooth-brush but a Jew’s harp!
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 15 January 1915, Page 2
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116A Happy Inspiration. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 15 January 1915, Page 2
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