Cooking Teacher! "Now. students, describe a gumdrop." Pupil (a movie fan): "A marshmallow in teehnicolour." Puffing and blowing, the young man just managed to jump into a carriage as the train left the station. The mid-dle-aged man in the corner eyed him with scorn. "When 1 was your age. my lad.” he said. "I could run half a mile, caich a tram by the skin of my teeth, and yet be as fresh as a daisy." “Yes." gasped the young fellow, "but 1 missed this one at the last station."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 8
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