HOME GUARD.
She was a big, strong woman, and the burglar she had tackled and captured bore unmistakable signs' of punishment. “It was: very plucky of you, madam,” said the magistrate, “to have set upon the burglar and captured him, but need you have blackened his eyes and knocked all his front teeth out?” “Well,”/ said the woman, “how was .I' to know it was a burglar? I’d been up three hours waiting for my husband. I thought it was him.” . . r -
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War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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82HOME GUARD. War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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