RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33426, 7 January 1974, Page 14

RANDOM REMINDER

HURD PARTS There is always drama, nist around the corner, and expected places. He is a publican, and he v :s going about his business with his usual quiet efficiency. He was, in fact, doing nothing in particuHis wife came to him tn a state of some agita"Brandy ’ she said. “Brandy-quitklv. The second cook has cut his hand r>n the electric slicing machine.”

Our hero, like many of us. does not relish the sight of blood, but he could see where his duty lay and accepted the Newfoundland role cast upon him. He poured a glass of brandy and his wife bore it away in great haste. After a few minutes, the man in charge concluded that he should go and see how the patient was faring. To his considerable surprise, he found that the second cook w not only on his feet, but also on duty.

There was a little medical covering on the back of one hand. The second cook ’explained that it had been only the tiniest of scratches. The publican was relieved. He also realised he had been relieved of a double brandy and told the second cook that it was not a bad way to get a drink. “That wasn’t for me” the second cook said. “That was for the third waitress. She fainted when it happened.”