THE PRICE OF BRANDY.
Those crafty German raiders have hit us shrewdly' in it way of which not till tho world * has yet learned (says the Daily Chronicle)'. A veracious and .observant workman lias just explained the position to his mistress. "Yes, mum, these raids is very corstly." "Very; roads and buildings cannot be repaired for nothing," she enswered sympathetically. "Oh, it ain't- that;, mum. It's the ladies, poor dears., They faints, and it takes a lot of brandy :to brino 'em round. And brandy is jso expensive in These 'ard tithes. That's where it cornes in, nnirn." 'l-riie :laueliters, without- doubt, of ladies whom Dickens .'"limned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 6
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107THE PRICE OF BRANDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 6
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