TRY A SMILE
Boss: That boy of yours is a good worker, Hori! Hori: Yairs, poor boy! He bin a bit soft in de plurry ’ead! , ***** Old Officer: So you’ll be carrying on the Dad’s work, eh? New Digger: I hope so, sir—he was a two-up king! * * * * “Dear Jim,” wrote the fond mother to her son, who had joined the Army, “I hope you’ll remember to be pnuc--5 tual in getting up in the morning and - not keep the battalion waiting breakfast for you.”
ARMY FORMS. “Now,” said the instructor, who was taking an Air Force trainee on his first flight, “we are going to rise to 20,000 feet. If anything should go wrong, you have only to jump out, pull the rip cord of the parachute trapped on to your shoulders, and you will float safely to earth.” “But,” ventured his pupil, rather nervously, “supposing the parachute doesn’t open?” “In that case,” said the instructor, smiling reassuringly, “all you have to do is to fill in the prescribed form for complaints and present it to the officer of the day.”
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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 17, 23 August 1940, Page 3
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181TRY A SMILE Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 17, 23 August 1940, Page 3
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