A young Londoner stopped and spoke to an old man in a country village. “And how old are you?” the young man asked after a little conversation. “I be seven and seventy,” was the reply. “But why put tne seven first?” - “Because I were seven before I was seventy.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4064, 24 June 1938, Page 3
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