QUEER TIME TO BOAST.
Two men sat on the river bank, fishing. One had a bite, and in the excitement he fell into, the water. The other man watched him struggle, but did nothing to aid him.
"I can't swim!" shouted the man in the water. He went under, and when he came up he shouted again: "I can't
swim!"
The man on the bank watched him with languid interest.
The man in the water sank again. When he came up he gasped, "I can't swim!"
"Well, my friend," commented the man on the bank, "this is a queer time to be boasting of it!"
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 7
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105QUEER TIME TO BOAST. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 7
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