Wife: “Your cough has been worrying me so much that I have got somebody in to see you.” Husband: “Who is it? The doctor?” Wife: No, dear. The gentleman from the Insurance Company.” Some snakes which escaped on a liner were all recaptured within a few minutes. Nevertheless, a nervous passenger who left the bar and sat on a coil of rope on deck is convinced that it hissed at him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 8
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