Never Touched Him,
The women of a Mississippi town organised a Red Cross auxiliary society, and among their . contributions to the comfort of their absent heroes was a case of home-made pyjamas. The box containing these was sent to camp, but no acknowledgment of its receipt was returned. So the good women telegraphed : "Anxious to know if you got the pyjamas last week." . Now, the captain had been sitting up with the boys the night before, and wheu the despatch was handed him he was trying to reduce his swollen head with a wet towel, and his mind was somewhat confused. So the women of the relief society were astonished by the receipt of this despatch : "Story is a lie out of whole cloth ; probably made up by my enemies to ruin me politically. Admit am not a total abstainer, but never had the pyjamas last week or at any other time." — Argonaut.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2373, 24 August 1899, Page 61
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Never Touched Him,
Otago Witness, Issue 2373, 24 August 1899, Page 61
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