THE STRIE BROUGHT ME. FROM ABOVE
w fhXHTY eight y©af© ©go, st to ©las© bf a wendefful Baenheim day, ©a -©mmbo I* Old Maa Picric taxied down gently ta th© lawn and shouted 11 ©©me and get him H which was to first intimation Of my sex to th© household* i toned* lately dashed into the house io road the Congratulatory telegrams and letters “ there, was only one from an Aunt who wrote it before she left for. Europe some months Garlic 1 there and then decided to join the R & T Dept, and buck it up a. bit* I san say, in all modesty, that telegrams arid letters now arrive on hand M :::i A bit of good work Cliff, and our best wishes for the next thirty eight years* We hope you spend some of them in H.Z* int OU Dec, I* thirty five years ©go, three years later, to Old Man stork made another trip, which no records at some lenght in his diary as one of to trips that lad him to taka to Buck You Up 0* nerve tonic. 19 was delivering: young Eddie Goodall who would persist in mofc Ing his fostered transport do a detour of all to farm land in to vicinity of Mwaka* * X wanna know th© layout whore you drop mo ” & ho mads his choice; but ho ted • detained to Old Bird so long tot instead of landing m to cabbage plot, ho fins to d up in to cow yard. * What did X do y % Eddie, says, * well, I just rounded up to cows and put tom in to night paddock while the Fcp announced my arrival,s. * TALK, why ho did nothing buttalk all the way. The most curious Mttlo cuss I over carried - and he wanted ■to know whether he was going to a French terns, Whsn X told him ho wt a Scot he said £ with a name like that - I had to tell him - I should be able to play tennis! f That was 30th Bov, thirty years ago and it looks as though Old Stork’s anecdote runs to form, don’t you think Cpl/ JAiwguson; To you and we ’ wish the best — which has yet to be« ;:5 lcckibg at « Tag * Seal it is hard, to believe that tte x entire Beal household .slept in the afternoon of Ms arrival—when he arrived at siesta period, But tot is the »t®ry. Storkland recards that ” Tag K was so quiet Old Stork ted to set all to alarm clocks in the house to announce the arrival of to quiet youth.
::: I saw to it that there wag . ; little sleep fox the- rest of the day - and that has heon my palicy aver since. Cut of that experience I developed my population theory,, but quietness scends upon mo sometimes * as it did when I celebrated the arrival tho ether unday. That is why Dozerdust missed. Too bad we missed, K Tag a - we Might have missed the breakfast on tho Sunday morning. Best wishes on papulation matters and in the days to segno. ::: HSGAUSB all tiki Journeys were made a. long time ago, do not think Old’ Man Sroi'k is on the shelf. Ho a bit. On Wednesday our Charlie Goffin celebrated the arrival of the Storks first visit to the Coffin homo. He carried a daughter to .7 Charlie end wife. If the future Kiss Coffin has as happy a time as Charlie did nt the party she in in for a good time. Congratulation Charlie. Convey £££ blessing to the new arrival and good wished to her mother. You have something to look forward to at hom3
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 1, 4 December 1943, Page 3
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