Tms incident occurred in a Registration Office recently.
A seaman's wife was in registering the birth of her fifth child, her husband being away on active service. This was her first experience of the procedure, moreover, as her husband had been at home on the previous occasions.
When she was handed the completed certificate, she pushed two half-crowns across the counter. It was then explained to her that no payment was necessary for the original certificate.
She became quite excited and exclaimed, "Just wait until he comes home on leave! He's charged me five shillings for each of the other four!"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.