WE DOST BELIEVE IT. "The -worst case of absent-mindedness I've ever come acros6," began the champion yarn-inventor, " happened in London last year. " Old Peter Pinder was the chap. He simply couldn't remember anything. I could tell you stories about that chap that would eurprise yon. "Well, ©jm night old Peter waa invited to a dinner. He eet off from home in good time, and had walked halfway there when he suddenly remembered something. "' Hang it!' he said. ' I've forgotten my watch.' "Then he pot his hand in his waistcoat pocket and polled the watch out to see what the time wwi - '"Unrrah!" he.said, 'it's only ten to eight*.. rT».-got. time tv go honic, and fetch
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Evening Star, Issue 14687, 3 October 1911, Page 3
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115Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 14687, 3 October 1911, Page 3
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