A vicar who had a nice orchard attached to his vicarage was perturbed when he learned that soldiers were to camp in a field close by. He put dgainst one of the trees a card with the inscription: “Please do not touch the apples. We want them for the Harvest Festival.” The soldiers arrived. Next day, when the vicar went to the orchard he found that the fruit had been stripped from the trees. The card had been reversed, and the following substituted for what he had written: “All is safely gathered in, ’ere the winter storms begin,”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 4
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