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By simon davis
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The first time that I heard this expression was many years ago, when I was a young man about to leave home for the first time and start fending for myself. I had found a big hole in one of my socks, and, being very ham-fisted, was making a mess of mending it. My mother, performing several eye-rolls, snatched the sock, needle and thread from my hand and proceeded to demonstrate the correct method, and this was when she made the above statement. “What a weird expression,” I replied, determined to stick up for myself, “I know about darning socks, but how on earth can pie be easy?”. My mother, who had a quick mind and an impish sense of humour, then told me the following tale.
During the Second World War, she (my mother) worked for the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), which was the women’s branch of the British army. During the early stages of the war she was posted to Northern France as a telephonist, so she often became privy to very sensitive information. Members of the French resistance in the local village would sometimes act as informants for them. Raoul, their leader, would arrange to meet secretly with my mother if he had any important information to pass on. A man of German descent called Herman Hass lived in the village and was generally mistrusted by the villagers. It was known that he had relatives back in Germany and that they had connections with the Nazis. A German patrol had recently rounded up some of the locals and subjected them to prolonged interrogation, as they suspected the existence of a local cell of the resistance movement. Hass was one of the group and he had been given preferential treatment by the Germans. His was the only house in the village that hadn’t had a visit from them.
Raoul therefore met my mother one night and, in his strong French accent, uttered the immortal words:
“ ’ass, eez he a spy?”
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