Bette, folks! George Formby calling from the Sunday Express." We've just finished our cruise, have Beryl and I, and eeh! we've had a champion time!
I've got so sunburnt that I had to spread some bloaterpaste on my passport photo befo I went ashore, just so as the authorities would recognize me, like, As for Beryl, she's got a nautical roll in her walk you could spread butter on.
"We've made a lot of lovely friends, too.
Only yesterday I was coming out of my cabin and there was all t'staff of ship lined up outside, with their hands held out, waiting for me. Naturally, I shook banis with them all It's a great thing, is popularity There was a big fancy dress ball tothe: to celebrate end of t'cruise. I went as a but I must have been too small. They threw me back. Then I tried again, disguised as an eel. TI s no holding me that time. Beryl as a bomb. E r for shelter she came in Beryl says when I get hone T've got to pull myself together and not th things out the window like I used to cabin. She says it's i g out ai t'window c next door, but when there's neighbours alongside it's different. They'll get the tuppence on the empties.
It was a very stormy night as we got near land. Those fellows in tligthouses were having a rough time of it, too—they couldn't keep their lamps alight more than a few seconds at a time.
Beryl complains I've 1 lot of bad habits on board ship. But huldn't I sleep in a life belt if I want to? It make: it all the easier to roll out of bed in t'mornings.
But we've had a champion time. The captain gave me back my uke and the purser gave me back my purse—and there, waiting on the landing-stage to meet us, was Mrs. Wigginthorpe with Lancelot As soon as he saw t'dog came right up and bit me in the leg. I looked so healthy that he thought it was a stranger hanging around tion—aeroplane bombs a wa in
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