Some waxworks models were being brought out of storage. One, a lifelike figure of Henry VIII, was on a trolley pushed by a rather short workman who was hidden behind it. A short-sighted woman, seeing the model coming toward her apparently of its own volition, gave a gasp and fled. The workman looked first at the flying figure, then at the model, and said: “Lumme! You at it again?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 9
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69Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 9
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