ON THE EIGHT TRACK An old Highland soldier got into a train travelling to Inverness. Rather unsteadily he sat down beside a Salvation Army officer. For some time lie gazed at the officer’s uniform with profound concentration. At last ho broke into speech. “What’s your reg-:;, iment, mon? I canna- mak’ it twit.” \The officer replied :J ‘I dim a soldier f heaven. Igo to Inverness to fight the to fight him again'.ranil then to Dundee, Edinburgh, and “That’s right, ma mon,” said the other : “keep on heading the blighter south.’
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 106, 7 November 1938, Page 4
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