Surprise Tactics
He was standing in a Will Road bus, banging to a strap like a Nationalist clinging to a platitude. Beneath him was a wilderness of feet which he was doing his damdest to dodge, but two of them, belonging to a big stern woman, were outsize, so that they protruded, it seemed, all over the floor space. The bus lurched and his foot collided with one of the outsizers. "That's my foot," snarled the big stern dame. "Can't you keep off ifc?" "Sorry, madam!" he said, forbeanhgly. '"Sorry I" she snorted. Clumsy, you mean." . He was so annoyed at her ungraciousness that he replied : "It seems to me, madam, that you oughtto put; your foot where it belongs." ; ■ "One more word from you^ young man, and I'll dam well do so." The rest was silence.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 3 January 1940, Page 7
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