"BLOKES PITCHING."

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 July 1920, Page 4

"BLOKES PITCHING."

In couversatiou outside St. Paul's to-day a "Digger" said: "it was dead i'uuuy this uu'jniing the way 1 got into the coiumuus, 1 got pasi ihe John at the gate, and was screwing round ut the door when uu uomes a laUv. "(jruod-day, Austraiiau,' she sa_)s. 'What oh, yuuiseU',' says I. "ihe JuUn uear tiirew a tit wh«n I bogged in. 'It's Lady Astor, Aus tvttJian. 5 ho t-iiys, lnLroducing us. 'Glucl to uiftHt you,' b.ys 1. 'Won't you come in and see ihe House ?' she hays. 'Righto,' says I. "I,]) she takes mo, aud 1 hit there i'jx a bit liatt-'uing to the blokes pitching. Then she Bays, 'How's it lor a bit of food, or something liko that V 'Right-o,' I says ; ny we goes uloug to the diuing-roou: and sits down with a couple of other blokes— dukes or lords 1 suppose.

"We had whips of champagne, and I told aoiue yarns about Towusville aud Maryland. I don't know 1 never said uothiug funny, but they all laughed like , She asked me up again, and I'm g-oing." Jin showed a tick.a of admission signed ' Astor."