HOW HE DID IT. “The fighting on the Marne was child’s play compared with what I wont through during the Afghan War,” said a veteran to a recruit. _ “I suppose you had some exciting experiences P ” replied the recruit. “Well, I should sa.y so. My regiment was ordered to charge a fort. We dashed amid a storm of shot and and shell into the very midst of the enemy, and not a man escaped to tell the tale. Every man from the colonel to the drummed boy was killed.” “How did yon manage to escape?” “Well, you sec, I was at homo at ihe lime.”
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, first aid for Coughs, Colds, Influenza.—[Ad vfc.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19583, 15 June 1927, Page 11
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