CURRIED HORSE. | The orderly knew nothing about ! horses, but the colonel did not know this. j '**T)rdeily,’’ snapped the colonel, “go 'and curry my horse.’’ ' Shortly came the distant sound of a rifle shot. Rushing from his tent to in- | vestigate, the colonel found the orderly, •rifle in hand, standing over the dying I horse. I “What the where the—what did (you mean by shooting my horse?” deI manded the irate colonel. ' “Well, you didn’t expect me to curry the poor cow alive, did you ”, replied I the orderly. Wife: Harry, dear, such a strange thing happened to-day. The clock fell off the wall and if it had happened a I moment sooner it would have hit mother. Harry: “I always said that I clock was slow.”
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Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 19, 25 September 1942, Page 3
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