IN CONFIDENCE.
The editor of a local paper on one occasion received n. letter from the <m Iter of Parliament for 1»> distnr . w hn>e wrii'n" was notoriously hard to (It i ,l ~r He could not read it all. and so showed it to several of the leading men of the town. Kin ally they made out that the h .t willed the editor to meet the MA ■ t< confer' oil a politic al point. There wa one word at the <■!-.-■ that no one cou.d '"n,"!".;. »n.i. in ,i..conversation the c. tor pulled out tin letter and s;iid : T c. -VI,. X . what is til!* word.-' I shov "d : 1 to ahout half the men in om town, and n"t one of them conhi make Mr X looked at the «ord in mlr»me. and then exclaimed: " Why. Rood gracious, that s v o.m dential'!"
The motto. " Knrl,-h fipoken Heic. has vanished from German hotels, and no loyal snbjert of the Kaiser will venture to reply in Enclifh no ™ lnys question asked in that language.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 47, 18 June 1915, Page 8
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175IN CONFIDENCE. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 47, 18 June 1915, Page 8
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