Tlie old lady had been a long time in the telephone box at the Post Office and at last an official went to see what she was doing. "I don't like those dial telephones!” said she. "I’ve been spelling out a’ long message, letter by letter, and I don't believe my son. at the other end. got ifJ” “Thompson is very) absent-mim d. Last night he sat up half the night try-, ing to remember what it was,he had' intended to do." “And did he remember?" "Oh. yes. He intended to go to bed early.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 7
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