NOT SOBRY An officious and unpopular A.R.P. official was putting the stretcher- ' bearer party through its paces. He Jay ( on the ground and said, “Now. re- . member, I’m completely smashed up. 1 Every bone in my body is broken. Now Jet s see how you pick me up.” ' The stretcher-bearer picked him up . efficiently, laid him on the stretcher, t and asked, “Well, was that satisfactory T * * A t*>, it was all right,” snapp3d the » otb. tons one, “only you didn't have a the no ; of regret in-vour eves 1 rv fected’” * ’
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 3
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