YULE SMILE
“A young fisherman was transferred to the Northern Patrol —somewhere between Shetland’s and Iceland, where the sea is very rough. But he continued to write cheerful letters to his mother—like this: “Dear Mother—Everything is marvellous. We have six meals a day—three down and three up!”
The little London evacuee billeted at a farmhouse looked at his breakfast egg, then pushed it aside.
“What’s wrong, Jimmy?” asked his new “mother.” “Aren’t you going to eat your egg?”
“No. ’faint a proper ’un, lidy,” said Jimmy. “Proper ’uns have ‘Denmark’ on them. This ain’t got nothin’ on it.”
Among the least illuminating features of the war are the black-outs.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 62, 28 February 1941, Page 6
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109YULE SMILE Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 62, 28 February 1941, Page 6
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