“I beg your pardon, ma’am,” said the newly-arrived Irish maid to the officer’s wife, “but is it Colonel or Major I should be calling the Captain?”
A henpecked husband reached the end of his patience and, after a final row with his wife, took his bowler hat from the peg in the hall and said: “I’m going.” Three years later he returned, and his wife demanded: "Where on earth have you been?” “Out,” he replied, and hung his hat on the same peg.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 5
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