“Takes all sorts to make a world! remarked the bus-driver to the cobbc alongside “and some of ’em nevf would be missed! Yesterday a melar j choly-looking bloke asks me did ! smoke? (he seen me pipe in me 'and ! and when 1 nods 'e sez: ‘Ah, my frien< | what a sinful and shockin’ 'abil!' Smok j ing ain't reckoned a crime yet,’ I make j teply ‘though there's parties no doul jns wishes it was.’ So disastrous to Ik I ’ealth.' 'e moans. ‘Must be,’ I sez, j boon o moking fer twenty-five years, an I I ain't dead yet. Quite the contrary ( 1 sez, ‘but then J smoke Cut Plug N< i tu (B'itlshead >. and there ain't no moi | arm in that, nor yet in the other teas J d baccas. Navy Cut No 3 (Bulldog j Cavendish, River ead Gold and Dese: i Gold than what there is m kiss-mc i 'and. If you smoked you’d know th plesaure and comfort what there is i ; H ese ’ere toasted brands. Why don | you give it a go, guv’nor?’ But 'e ju: j groaned and got orf. But fancy th ! ruddy cheek of ’im!”*
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 6 August 1941, Page 4
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195Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 6 August 1941, Page 4
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