A countryman recruit in the Home Guard was posted one night for sentry duty outside the unit’s headquarters. Hearing footsteps approaching, he challenged, and the following conversation ensued: Sentry: “ ’Oo be there?” Stranger: “Captain I. B. Coleman.” Sentry: “I be’ant a captain, and this be’ant the time to bring the coal.”—l “Peterborough,” in the “Daily Tele-| graph,” London.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1942, Page 3
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