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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1941.
DAISY, THE
WHITE SWEEP
Day Elliott has just completed forty years as chimney sweep of Shamley Green Surrey.
He is the neatest sweep for miles around, and never soils the white "dickie" which he always wears.
Though everyone calls bioi Daisy, nobody knows why.
His real name is Albert and he is in his seventy-first year. He wife always calls him Bert.
It is her pride
to keep up her
husband's reputation
as a "white sweep," and she washes his white "dickies" to perfection.
Daisy remembers the days when sweeps were very black, so black that they never bothered to wash.
"The blackest sweep I ever saw," he says, "was called John Thomas, "He used to climb inside the chimneys, so it wasn't any use fort him to wash **
On Sundays Daisy functions in his back garden as the village bar- her, specialising in at nice hair- cut for twopence or threepence ac- cording to the size of the job.
Only unce in forty years has any rival chimney-sweep tried to set up shop in Shamley Green. He lasted three days.
A CREW'S FIRST RAID
So thorough is the training of our bomber crews that they can go into action for the first time with the complete confidence that
they are technically ready for any
task.
the
There was an example of a sur- cessful first encounter with enemy recently. A bomber.
new crew, was detailed to attack
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