Diving for sponges, we are told by a radio lecturer, often causes severe headaches. Yes, we know. Only yesterday we banged our head on the side of the bath. The tramp knocked hopefully at the door of the house on Christmas Day. “Please, ma’am,” he said to the lady who opened it. “I’m a sick man. The doctor gave me this medicine, but I ain’t got nothing to take with it.” A sympathetic light came into her eyes, for was it not the season of goodwill? “Poor fellow,” she murmured, “I suppose you want a spoon and a glass of water?” The tramp shook his head. “No, ma’am,” he replied. “I would not trouble you for that. But the medicine ’as to be took after meals. I was wonderin’ if you’d got a nice bit of turkey 'andy?” ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 8
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