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I had trouble with my teeth, so Dr W Fox and the dentist came to the house. I lay on the kitchen table, the dentist asked for a fine kitchen sieve and a flannel, and dropped ether or chloroform onto it until I went out, and then did the dentistry. The next thing I remember is waking up in bed. I had to stay there for a few days and my mother played gramophone records to me, and the Germans came in because they thought it was a wireless! They came straight in and wanted to see, because wirelesses were absolutely forbidden and if you had one you were likely to be deported. Anyway they came up and it was explained to them what was happening, they must have shown them my mouth and the fact that I was being entertained by playing records, and they left satisfied that everything was OK. I don鈥檛 think they would have been too pleased if they had listened to the end of the record because it had our National Anthem, and I think they might have confiscated that record.
BRIAN LE CONTE

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