PLENTY OF TIME.

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1941, Page 14

PLENTY OF TIME.

Travelling along a quiet country road in a heavy truck “Bluey” took his eyes off the road for a few seconds and before he knew what had happened truck was off the road and turned over in a heap of blackberry bushes. “Bluey” managed to crawl out, but the sergeant who was with him was pinned beneath the truck. “Are you hurt?” “Blue/’ asked the sergeant. “No, I’m not,” the sergeant replied, “but go and get help at once and get me out of here. It’s certainly not comfortable here on these blackberries.”' ; “Bluey” set out for the nearest farmhouse. « “Could you give me a hand to lift a truck back on its wheels?” “Bluey” asked the farmer. “It turned over with me and the sergeant.” “I’ll certainly give you a hand,” the farmer replied, “but you had better get the sergeant and then the two of you can come up to the house and have something to - eat first and we’ll see, about the truck later.” x \ \ “The sergeant wouldn’t be able to come,” “Bluey” replied, “but I don’t mind going myself.” He went with the farmer and had a good meal and as he was finishing the farmer turned to him and said. “Why couldn’t the sergeant come along too and have something to eat? Is he afraid to leave the truck?” “He’s not afraid to leave it,”, “Bluey” replied. “He can’t leave it because he’s pinned beneath it.” * * * The principal bookseller in The Hague was ordered by the Nazis to remove a small portrait of Queen Wilhelmina from his window. Beside the photograph appeared a book, “How to Swim,” by Max Braun, the famous Dutch woman swimming teacher.