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...Lieut. Siegfried Schmidt, 25, both Nazi airmen, both prisoners of war at the Fort Henry internment camp outside Kingston, Ont., seem to have literal minds. Not long ago they apparently got a copy of Pickwick Papers from the camp library, and came across the passage in which Weller the elder suggested that the hero escape from his imprisonment in the Fleet with the help of a piano...
...maker has devised a plan for getting him out. A planner, Samivel-a planner!" said Mr. Weller, striking his son on the chest...
...planner forty, Samivel," rejoined Mr. Weller, in a still more mysterious manner, "as he can have on hire, vun as von't play, Sammy...
...send to my friend, the cab'net-maker, to fetch it back, Sammy," replied Mr. Weller. "Are you awake...
Lieuts, Strehl and Schmidt seemingly decided that old Weller, whose super-cockney sounded like their own German accent of English, had something there. They made their plans slowly...