ONE FOR GEORGE
The boys were Jways teasing George because of his English county dialect. One day when he came to school they cried: “Be it raining, Garge?” “Aye, that it be,” replied the lad. “t’were raining a bit when I came along, but now it be raining cats and dogs.” “How do you know that, stupid, without going out to see?” asked the otbe: boys. “Because the lane be full o poodles, i see?” cried young Garge.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 287, 31 August 1935, Page 25
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78ONE FOR GEORGE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 287, 31 August 1935, Page 25
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