A voung Londoner stopped and spoke 'to an old man in a country village. “And how old are you?” the young man asked after a little conversation. “ 1 be seven and seventy,' 1 was the reply. “ But why put the seven first?” “ Because I were seven before I was seventy.’?.
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Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 9
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