A man in the Veteran Reserves was called un recently. After a week at his new quarters he was brought up before the officer commanding' for not cleaning his rifle one day. Said the officer commanding: “Hem, you’re an old soldier reenlisted, I see, I suppose it will be many years a.go since you "were reprimanded. What was your last offence? Can you remember what it was?” Old Soldier (with irony on account of the repeated assertion to his ago): “ For not cleanin’ mi bow an arrow, sir 1” Be kind to your mother, for when you were small, , , Slio kissed and caressed you, if you had a She nursed you in sickness, and laughed at your joy, ~ , , For she was your mother and you her dear boy. , . , ~ No friends could be kinder, no friends could bo truer Than mother— and Woods’ Great Peppermint Cura,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 74
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145Page 74 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 74
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