LEAP-YEAR SIGH
Two palm trees had been sitting next to each other in the desert for 35 years. On the 29th of February of the 36th year, the female palm tree said to the male one :“What a pity we were never introduced. We might have made a date.” —Ronald Frankau, broadcast in the 8.8. C.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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56LEAP-YEAR SIGH Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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