IT WAS ALSO SALT
A burly old skipper and his mate went into a restaurant at Southampton (says the Inglenook) and ordered a ‘ table dotty ’ dinner. The waiter, with considerable flourish, placed a plate of thin, watery-looking liquid before each of them. ‘Hi, me lad, wot’s this stuff?’ shouted the captain, gazing in amazement at the concoction under his nose. ‘ Soup, sir,’ replied the waiter. ‘Soup!’ shouted the old sea-dog. ‘Soup! Bill,’ turning to the mate, ‘ just think of that! ’Ere .s you and me been sailin’ on soup all our lives and never knowed it till now.’
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New Zealand Tablet, 18 May 1911, Page 934
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98IT WAS ALSO SALT New Zealand Tablet, 18 May 1911, Page 934
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