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Au old lady calk'd at tlio post - office and complained to the post master about the bad language used! by two workmen wliikv they were engaged ni a telegraph pole outside her house. . The postmaster asked tin* workmen • to make a repuit out and this- is v/hhfc In l received:— “Dear sir,—Ale and my mate were' ■ repairing the pole outside Airs. Smith’s house. Bill wasl up the ,7 ' and 1 was at the bottom. Hill upset- | some boiling lead, and it tell down r my neck. ‘Now, Hill, yon should bo / more careful.’ Nothing more was -■» said!” ' -• 14 '*• I.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 247, 16 October 1939, Page 4
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101MILD LANGUAGE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 247, 16 October 1939, Page 4
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