Wellington Times in Wellington, New South Wales

Scraps and Smiles From a Wartime Social Night

A collection of brief humorous vignettes from a wartime social gathering. The sketches feature a self dramatizing speaker in a smoking room, a Ladies' Aid jest on Woman and her man, a teacher and Jonah tale, two bored youths swapping shells and pennies, an American Indy at Shakespeare's birthplace, a miserable old man at the Red Lion, a rent collector’s peppermint trick, a bragging family portrait, a nervy trench recruit, Willie Weakness dismissing dangerous sports, a married couple’s quip about dying for wife, and a bakery biscuit request.