NUTSHELLS
A PEW TOO MANY Three of Norfolk’s well-known story-tellers have been entertaining an audience with a flow of stories in Norfolk dialect, and one of them delighted the people of Norwich with a true story by the way, declaring that it happened in St. Stephen’s Street, Norwich. He said that at the top of the street someone emptied a large paper full of moukeynuts out of the window of a car. A policeman saw it and held his hand up. The car stopped. The policeman pointed to the nutshells and said to the driver of the car, What’s all this? What do you mean? said the driver. Pick ’em up, said the policeman. Pick them up! exclaimed the driver. Yes, said the policeman; pick them up or I’ll pick you up. The end of it was that every member of the family (father, mother, son, and daughter) had to get out of the car and pick up every one of the nutshells.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12284, 23 February 1938, Page 4
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