MISCELLANEOUS.
Letters, slated to be duly authenticated, have passed between a British
. airman and the mother of a German ! airman whom he killed in combat. “There is notkiug to forgive,’’ she | wrote in her reply. “I see you coming ! to me like a little boy astounded at i having done ill when you meant well. ; I am glad your hand cared for my boy as I would rather you than any other touched bis earthly body. . . . When this war is over come to me; I am waiting for you.”
A story is told of rather a naive and ' clever retort by an English girl, a chauffeur, to General Pershing. The general, on the gij;] chauffeur's arrival for him, said to her: “You are three minutes late.” “And,” replied the girl, promptly, “you arc three years late, general; get, in.” AVhich shows that the English girl is not behind her American sister nowadays, anyhow, for it is just the sort of answer the American general might have expected from one of his own countrywomen.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 28 April 1919, Page 4
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173MISCELLANEOUS. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 28 April 1919, Page 4
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