EE * * * * K/._ . young recruit, remembering his other’s advice always to be polite, flayed his best manners in the ;jjs by quietly asking, “Please pass lilk salt.” times he repeated the reI j^t,-until at last, losing his patience, mellowed, “Hi! Ain’t none of you pck-kneed, hen-brained perishers manners to pass the salt?” _J)h, crumbs,” said a quiet voice, y on earth couldn’t you have said 1.11. at first? ’Ere, catch!” 4 * * * * * ' Smythe was expecting some i A'cuated children, and on being in- ; ned that they were fairly big boys,; decided to engage a strong, cap-i woman to look after them. ’ft'he boys arrived before the foster >her, and as Mrs. Smythe had to jJaway from home that day, she left . -ructions for her. want you to get the boys thorJjqhly bathed and put to bed before ,][ return, Mrs. Brown,” she wrote. 4>n’t stand any nonsense from them. jd firm.” )n her return in the evening, the tee was strangely peaceful. “Well, : s. Brown,” she said, “did you find ■ boys easy to manage?” j Fairly,” replied Mrs. Brown, ive of them weren’t so bad. But, , my! I ’ad a ’ell of a time trying bath the little ginger fellow in rn-rimmed glasses.” “Great Scott!” cried Mrs. Smythe, 'hat’s my husband.”
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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 10, 5 July 1940, Page 7
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