The Archive · 1940

IN PARENTHESIS Barrage of Them

An old bed-ridden woman, who had been in hospital for many months, was put into a wheel-chair during an air-raid warning and wheeled across the courtyard to the shelter.

As she went, she looked up at the exclaimed: "Why, we're surrounded peh Keep Your Seats A young recruit in one of the military riding schools fell off his horse.

The sergeant strode up and demanded: "Did you receive orders to dismount?"

"I did si rom what quarto "From hind quarters, said the recruit with a grin.

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