Warriors Day, Preston On

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
.... why not just a 'gas mask', so the poor wee thing can see, but not be seen..... but they don't make them that small either...you could always stick her in your 'housewife'......

Grandpa Mark-O-ld-Fart,

housewife: a small sewing kit, usually handmade, carried by soldiers and sailors during the Civil War

CIVIL war? They still carried those in WW2 then?

Meanwhile:

sew .... a needle pulling thread ... I would be careful around the likes O' Ma around sharp pointy things and those who would test her