LOVERS' SECRETS.
The colonel, on bis tour of inspection, unexpectedly entered the drill room, where he came upon a couple of soldiers, one of whom was reading a letter aloud while the other was listening and. at the same time stopping up the ears of the reader. * What are you doing there V the puzzled officer enquired of the latter. ' You see, colonel, I am reading to Smith, who can't read himself, a letter from his sweetheart V ' And you, Smith ? •Please, colonel, I am stopping up Atkins' ears with both hands, because I don't mind his reading my sweetheart's letter, but I don't want him to know what's in it 1 , 7 'YY
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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1032, 4 May 1894, Page 3
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114LOVERS' SECRETS. Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1032, 4 May 1894, Page 3
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