WHAT’S IN A NAME?

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 7, 1 August 1941, Page 14

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

She was hard to please. . She thought her first boy was not being Frank with her, while she told her second she would not be Harried. There was another who was not Rich enough for her and she refused to Don the Bridal veil for a fourth. Her next failed to convince her that he was in Ernest; another romance just Peter-ed out, and when her seventh got away, she decided she had had her Phil of the male sex. Nevertheless, when another "' t ? ' ''' suitor appeared she was persuaded to say “I Wil.” 1 . / . ■ ■ ’S • * * ♦ “What was all that row in your tent last night?” the officer asked the corporal. ’ - “Well, sir,” was the reply, “Private. Jones swiped Private Smith’s fags so he threw a boot at him. Then Smith hit Jones with a plate, and Jones banged Smith’s head on the tent-pole.” , “Yes. And then ” “Then they got mad and started to fight!’’ * * *