METHOD IN HIS MADNESS
t- Cobber was acting very strangelv on parades. Every ten minutes he V would jump out of his ranks and pick - up any piece of paper lying about After this had gone on for thre« a weeks the sergeant began to thinfc Cobber was insane, so he paradec r him before the colonel. Hearing the story, the colone , shook his head. "Advanced insanity," 'ity," he announced. "We've no us< for that type of man in the army.' He thereupon wrote out Cobber's dis charge form and handed it to him Cobber took it and a look of jo\ n spread over his face. "You know sir," he addressed the colonel, "thi; r is the bit of paper I've been lookinf d for all the time!"— The "A.B.C \Mnol-lv >»
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 187, 9 August 1941, Page 14
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