"Make Mine A Cigar"

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23271, 5 June 1950, Page 6

"Make Mine A Cigar"

LONDON,

For those who collect ChurchUliana, this one is attributed to an American source :

Churchill, Truman and Stalin arrived simultaneously at the gate of heaven. Each of them, Saint Peter informed them, would be granted a single last wish. “I wish the United States would be wiped off the face of the earth,” said Stalin. “I wish communism and its cradle, Russia, to be obliterated,” said Truman. It was Churchill's turn. “Make mine a cigar,” said Churchill. “But,” he added. ‘l'm really in no hurry, so please look after the other gentlemen first.” And while we are laughing, here’s one from Scotland, where, it seems, almost the only people who can afford deer-stalking in the Highlands these days are the new rich from the south. At the height of the season a rich exporter who had taken a hunting lodge for the first time came down from a hillside rather late one after noon and met one of his ghillies. “I say,” the hunler inouired, “is Mr. Pcckham back, and all the other mem bers of the party?" “Av,” said Sandy, "they’re all back at the lodge.” The exporter drew a deep brealh. “Then ” he said. "I've shot a deer.”