A Russian peasant haying gone to the town to buy himself a new pair of hoots, fell asleep hy the roadside on hia way home, and was stripped of hia cherished boots by a light-fingered tramp; but his sleep remained unbroken till a passing waggoner, seeing him lying half across the track, shouted to him to “ take his legs out of the way.” “My legs,” echoed the halfaroused sleeper, rubbing his eyes: “ those legs ain’t mine—mine had hoots on!”
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Evening Star, Issue 23508, 23 February 1940, Page 5
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79Untitled Evening Star, Issue 23508, 23 February 1940, Page 5
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