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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1674, 13 February 1917, Page 4

BLOODLESS SURGERY

The following tale is a favourite one in the trenches. A certain bright young spirit was hooked for a slight abdominal operation. When informed of this he surprised the surgeon by inquiring if a clergyman might be present. “A clergyman?” echoed the man of the scalpel. “Why, I don’t think it’s its serious as all that.” “But I shall have to be opened, shan’t 1, doctor?” persisted the patient. “Certainly,” was the puzzled reply, “but why the padre?” “Why," declared the sufferer, solemnly, but with a twinkle in his eye, “1 thought 1 should like to be opened with prayer!”

AT i) PAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Kith., MILLAR & (JIOKGI’S SALE! SALE! WILL COME TO AN END. MAKE the most of the closing days, and remember the nearer we get to the end of the Sale the bigger grows the bargains. There are heaps of odds and ends we must clear out of the premises, and this is particularly the case in the shoe department. DESPERATE BARGAINS. Serviceable lines in Men’s, Women's and Children’s Footwear going during the remaining rouhs of the sale. MAKE THE MOST OF THIS FINAL OPPORTUNITY. MILLAE & GIOEGI, PALMERSTON NORTH. Wanted Known: Walker and Furrie is the firm to_ supply housewives with every home necessity. Household ironmongery and bhrushware at the lowest prices. See cheap rates, front pages liaidlaw Leeds’ Wholesale Cata* log. X.