The manager of the provision store -■ had three large cheese on his handa which were not very fresh. At last ho had a brain-wave. When closing time * approached he instructed his assistant to put one of them in the backyard to l see if anyone would take it during tho < night.. The assistant did so, and next j ■ morning he reported that the cheese had < disappeared. That evening the second ( cheese was deposited in the yard, and 1 and in the morning that also had gone. I On the third evening the remaining 1 cheese was carried out. < “Well,” said the manager next morning, rubbing his hands in satisfaction, * “I suppose we’ve got rid of the third 1 cheese?” «] “No,” was the reply, “and the other! two have come back.” |i
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 259, 1 November 1940, Page 8
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