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Nicer To Stay In Beein t! - North of Knglati there still exists u time-hoi iurod character known as tl knocker-iip. whose thunkiei iask it is to go round with Ion* pole in the early-vet early morning, and, a hum *1 wires at the end of the pol tap at the bedroom windows i 1 In w who are due to go work at an early hour.In one town the knocke up taps every morning at pertain window with his pol K.td every morning the elder! kM'MtUimun in bed hurls string of abuse and defiant 1 • « ugh the window, then turt aver and goes comfortably t deep again.He is retired, but has been slave to the tap of the pole a ong that he pays the knockei Jp for the sheer pleasure c being able to sleep in aftc he Bummons.Perhaps that is why ol salts hang around the edge c he sea after it is no longt heir master.
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Blackwood Times
Blackwood, Western Australia, AU
Fri, Feb 17, 1950
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