A LITTLE DRY HUMOUR.
A good yarn is told of a returned soldier, who was famous in camp at Trentham, on the transport, and on Gallipoli for his dry humour. He was, quite recently, travelling in the train, dressed in mufti , when a querulous-looking female addressed him thus; “You are an able-bodied, healthy looking young man. Why are you not at the war?” The returned soldier, who has one arm partially paralysed as a result of a wound received in battle, replied, in his characteristic drawl: “Oh, I am think-ing a-bout en-Jisting.” But the seeming indifference only angered the petulent lady, and she continued to pester the soldier, until he at last decided to ask her some pertinent questions. “Anyhow, I'’ 1 '’ he said, “how many sons have you sent to the war?” The fair one rose up in righteous wrath, and snapped cmt: “How dare you ask me that, question, sir, I’m not married!” Ouick as a Hash the soldier retorted, “Then you ought to be, for you are not doing your duty to your country.” And everyone in the carriage roared with laughter, much to (he discomforture of the chaste spinster.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1705, 28 April 1917, Page 4
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193A LITTLE DRY HUMOUR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1705, 28 April 1917, Page 4
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