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Wednesday, 4 August 2021

Missing words: a rant.

 Telegraph May 31st

Keep your coal

SIR – My great-uncle Morgan was a coal man. When he couldn’t get a reply at one household he opened the unlocked kitchen door (Letters, May 29) and found a note propped up against a teapot: “Coal-man, empty sacks under kitchen table.”

Apparently the occupiers were not best pleased when he followed their instructions to the letter.

Andre Baker
Wellington, Somerset

 

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