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Sir,-Though the following partakes also of "Kid Cracks," perhaps your excellent Eavesdropping contributor E.H.W. would like to add the middle of it to his valuable pieces of choice remarks from parent to child:Scottish child: "Mither, look; a dug." Parent: "Not a dug, Willie; a dawg." Child: "Weel, Mither, it’s awfu’ like a dug." (Loc.: Kirkcaldy tram, Scotland.) I am tempted to tell him of the woman heard saying that when she was very sick she put on "hot vomitations," but remembering Polonius re soul of wit, I am
E. DOUGLAS
PULLON
(Christchurch)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 252, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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94MORE EAVESDROPPING New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 252, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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