WINE-SWEEPING ALL RIGHT.
When - a certain employer met one :of his- young men in naval uniform, he asked him why he had not joined the
army. .';.-■ " My<•• mother, wouldn't let me," was the reply. "What! A big, hulking . fellow like you,.- and ' your mother wouldn't ' let you?" '.'••' ~' " No," said the . recruit, "so I've volunteered for mine-sweeping." ■ " But that's more dangerous than fighting in tlje army." "I know that," said the man, but my mother doesn't."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)
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75WINE-SWEEPING ALL RIGHT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)
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