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An old Highland soldier got into a train travelling to Inverness. Rather unsteadily he sat down opposite a Salvation Army officer. For some time he gazed at the officer’s uniform with profound concentration. At last he broke into speech. “What’s yer regiment, man? I canna mak’ it oot.”. To which the Salvation Army officer replied: “I am a soldiei’ of the Lord. I go to Inverness to fight the devil; thence to Aberdeen to fight him again, and then down to Dundee, Edinburgh and Newcastle.” The soldier struggled to his feet and gave the officer a resounding slap on the back. “That’s richt, ma man,” he said. “Keep on heading the blighter south.”

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410714.2.75

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 7

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113

Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 7

Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 7

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