OVERHEARD IN THE STREET.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 11, 15 November 1919, Page 9

OVERHEARD IN THE STREET.

"Fancy going off with another man's wifel" "No one can say I haven't done my duty to my family." "Yes, and she boiled my steak." "I turned round and told her ? I wasn't going to do her washing. "We've twelve hens and not one egg to-day." "Fancy only smoked schnapper for breakfast!" "I wonder ii he does spend all his time on his allotment!" "She's an awfully nice lady., but—" "Absolutely starved up there." "Hot water bottle left in my bed all the week." "Who pays for her clothes I should like to .know!" "They call it scrambled eggs!" "She's always going out." "They charged me three-and-six, and it used to cost ninepencc." "Our slavey is only coming back for a month." "I never saw that money again." "Love him! I don't think!" "Au officer, too! And he never married her. ,, "Didn't I stick to my husband?" "I couldn't tell if it was mutton or beef." "Who was she before the war?" "I never thought she> rwas a lady." "She ses, ses she—" "Sixpence for a glass of milk, and most of it water!" "I wasn't going to work for the likes of her." f'He said he loved me, but he did look sloppy." "I call it profiteering." "She will talk, and you can't get a word in." "I told the.vicar to save their souls, but he would take counsel outside." "I wonder who her mother was!" "I shall miss him when he's gone —'I don't think! , " "I'm always meeting her and I try hard to be civil." "Do you wear your last season's clothes?" "She's got an awful temper. Just like a cat!" "Going to the cemeterw every day and making such a show of herself!" "I wonder if it is her husband!" "Vot could I do yen he offered such a brice?"

"I always make them of flannel."