HE MADE TOMMY LAUGH.
\Yi!l Crook* i- ;i lioni teller ol sto'-k-s, and his fi'tt stood hini in good stead during a vis:t ho paid lately t . our soldiers at the I'rent.
One yarn in particular appoalel most strongly »;> Tommy's sense of humour, always evoking roars of lauglitU'.
It concerned itself with a certain socii ty lady who, delighted with a purchase of flowers which s!ie had made at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, promised the old flower-seller that would come again the following A\cdnesday and buy ten shillings worth ot flowers because, she explained, her daughter was coming out on that day. "Oil, b'ess "er." said the old dame. "She shall 'ave the very best bookay money can buv. -Might. 1 ask what she was in for P"'
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129HE MADE TOMMY LAUGH. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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