“Yer know it’s hard luck on Bill (Smith being so awfully short-sighted. “Why? He doesn’t need good eyes for our blinkin’ job.” “No, but ’e cant see when the foreman’s coming, e as to keep on working all the time.” “Doctor, I hear that the patient you were treating for pneumonia died of heart disease.” “Bure gossip, Mrs Brown. When I treat a patient for pneumonia he dies of pneumonia.” “Well, John,” said the doctor, “did you go a walk this morning?” “Yes,’ was the reply. “Then you saw there ■was au election?” “Yes. I did see a hill on the barn about a young woman. 1 expect 1 shall vote for her, only no one in the village seems to know her. “Young woman?” “Yes. lie? name is 801 l Early.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 2
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