SIMPLE STORIES
SHOP TALK [It was my lunch hour, and I was read- ~ ing the newspaper that had wrapped my modest meal of fish and chips. Through the grease blobs such headings as "250 Hostages Shot" and "Frozen Civilians" caught my eye. I read the stories-heart-rending accounts of life in German-occupied Europe. My mind was filled with these thoughts when the clock struck, and I had to go back to my counter, My first customer was a large, furcoated woman, elderly but over-powering in manner and perfume. "Show me some fabric gloves," . she demanded. When I displayed an extremely small pair and explained that it was our last, she snorted and said: "In heaven’s name why is it we can’t even buy a decent pair of gloves now?" I turned back the cuff of a glove and showed her the stamp "Made in Czéchoslovakia." "That is why, madam," I said. "That country is fighting against Stiuuvation to-day." "Well," she replied haughtily, "surely they could find time to manufacture us some gloves!" =
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 206, 4 June 1943, Page 6
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171SIMPLE STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 206, 4 June 1943, Page 6
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