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A motor-cyclist on the main road between Weymouth and Dorchester, in England, heard a voice calling from behind a hedge: "Can you oil my knee joints, please?" The astonished cyclist pulled up, entered a field, and saw a man prone on the grass. "I have artificial legs," the man explained, "and they have got so stiff through my sleeping out in the rain that I cannot walk." The cyclist used his oil can, and the traveller, a former soldier, resumed his wanderings. ' ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 10
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83SURPRISE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 10
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