ANNUAL EVENT
'Oh, it's some day that!' exclaimed the old fellow. 'I always go an' wouldn't miss one. Last year. I remember I had hardly paid me money when ole Tom, the traveller for X, nailed me an' off we went to take refreshment in their tent. I come but o' there an' ran straight into the seedsman. Well, we'd 'ad seed from them for forty year, nigh on. I couldn't refuse. When I come out an' was walkin' to the next stand Charlie M. catches me arm. We'd bought a good bit o' stuff from 'im too. I 'ad to 'ave lunch with 'im. Crab an' salmon it was, an' then I 'ad a second feed with them that sold us the roofin' an' some more refreshment wi' Jack D. what fitted a pump for us. Do you know, I never seen 'alf what 1 come to see. I was that tired an' full that I thought I'd done for meself, but you can't offend old friends like, can you? We bought their stuff an' they showed their appreciation.
I 'ad to show didn't 1? Well, there was one thing. I didn't spend a penny but for me ticket an' a taxi to take me 'ome afterwards. It's only once a year an' you can be thankful for that.'
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