Brown and Jones had been dining extremely well at the club, and were returning home in the small hours of the morning. Said Brown to Jones: I shay, before you go jusht come in and have a parting drink. If we go in quietly we won't wake the wife. 'Phe two crept in no tip-toe. but when inside the door Jones crashed into the hall table, and Brown knocked over a chair. Jones looked at Brown in horror, and whispered: We must be quiet, or we’ll wake the wife. "Oh, that's all right,'’ replied Brown. "She'll never hear' with all this noise going
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1939, Page 9
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