A LONDON DIALOGUE.
Liz: Wot makes 'em go up in the air, them things.
Alf: W'y> the blinkin' hinjin, yer silly kid.
Liz: Well, ain't moters got hinjins 'Alf: Corse they 'as, but they ain't got no wings, 'aye 'em?
Liz: Then it's the wings as makes 'em go up, ain't it?
Alf: Pawtly. Well, it's like this. They runs along the grahnd a bit, an* then the wind gits under the wings, and hup they go ! See ?
Liz: Wunnerful, ain't it ?
Alf: Jest abaht. Liz: An' 'ow do they come dahn, then, Alf?
Alf: W'y, stop the hinjin, o' corse. „ Liz: But' ow can they git the wind aht from under the wings?
Alf: Well—f'rinstance—well, 'ow does a bird do it? • Liz: I dunno.
Alf: You seen a bird, I s'pose, ain't yer ?
Liz: 'Eaps. Alf: An' you seen a bird come dahn I s'pose?
Liz: Oh, yus, I seen that. Alf: Well, then, don't arst sich dam silly queschuns !
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 August 1912, Page 7
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161A LONDON DIALOGUE. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 August 1912, Page 7
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