The orderly officer received a complaint about the issue of bread. "Soldiers should not make a fuss about trivialities, my man,” he said. “If Napoleon had had that bread when he was crossing the Alps, he’d have eaten it with delight.” “Yes, sir,” said the lance-corporal, “but it was frish then.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1938, Page 2
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51Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1938, Page 2
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