STOIC CHILDHOOD.
“JERRY” ABOUT SOMEWHERE
The following letter from Lady Scott, wife of Sir George Slcott, appeared in the “Daily Telegraph,’’ London, recently Sir,—The phiegm of the British child is sometimes amusing; it breaks tension. Here is Mary, aged 14, writing to her aunt on Sunday evening in a. small provincial town: “Jerry is somewhere about; hei has just dropped 11 something-or-other. Mother has gone to get her money and her trousers.” Yours truly, Graff ham. G. E. SCOTT.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 145, 1 April 1941, Page 7
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79STOIC CHILDHOOD. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 145, 1 April 1941, Page 7
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