Norway: The visiting card. —It is said that German officers billeted in Norwegian coastal towns are sometimes disagreeably surprised to find a two days old copy of the London "Tinies" lying beside their breakfast sausage. It is the visiting card of the captain of the gunboat “Sleipner,” the “Flying Norwegian" of the west coast fiords. The shepherd’s daughter was going to marry a town-dweller. Wishing to make her father look smart at the ceremony she got him to agree to wear a hat. The shepherd went into a store: Clerk: “What size, please.” Shepherd: "I don't know." Clerk: "We'll try a six and a half first." Shepherd: "Six and a half be hanged. I wear a 16 collar, and I know my head is bigger than my neck.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1941, Page 4
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