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Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 867, 16 February 1917, Page 24

It was up the -. Main. Trunk way, , buried, in the backlocks and a considerable distance from anywhere. A "bagman," representing a well-known Wellington house, happened along there one day recently. ,He found .a greybearded ancient sitting on the verandah of the local pub. "Well, dad," he remarked in the cheery; voice affected by commercials when issuing invitations to t drink, "What do you think of the war ?" "War ?']said the old man in a tono of astonishment. "Ain't they caught that old beast Kruger yet?''