THINGS OVERHEARD IN WAR-TIME.
"There couldn't be room there for all the Jews, could there?"
"After waiting two hours I got half-a-pound."
"It should be made compulsory."
"Wherever else these matches strike, they won't strike on the box."
"I just turned over and went to sleep again."
"I wish the Government would tell me what I could do for them."
"Oh, another three years."
"What puzzles me is—Where is the paper shortage?"
"We keep a gramophone in the basement now."
"No one is more willing than I am to do something."
"It's the children's festival—that's what I always say."