A LONG WAIT.
This story is well known in the camps but somehow the soldiers have managed to keep it to themselves:— On a certain part of the British lineso the story runs—information was leaking out, and a special reward was offered for the capture of the spy. Tho soldiers tock up tho hunt keenly, and ono night whilo a member of a patrol party was out in No Man's Land, he entered a shell-shattered ruin and discovered a wrinkled old man whose clothing was all rags and'tatters. , "Got you at last," said tho soldier, "Come out of it, jou old blighter. You're the man that's been spying on us for Jerry, are you?" j The old man vigorously protested that he was a patriotic Frenchman. "Tr» besn hero aims* 18TO," X«. *u4. ."*ad 1 haven't beau mlievad yet-''
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 38, 15 February 1919, Page 11
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139A LONG WAIT. Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 38, 15 February 1919, Page 11
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