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Show After a "push' some of the lads of H the Northumberland Fusilliers who en- H tered one of the captured villages sot H about making things comfortable for H themselves. Seeing a large wooden H box some distance away, they made H tracks to commandeer it. On the way H back an officer met them and queried: H "Here, lads, where are you going H with this?" iH "This is an old egg-box, sir; we're H taking it along to our dugout, sir," one H of them explained. H "Egg-box be hanged!' retorted the H officer. "Why, that's tho general's M roll-top desk." M H The smart young man his school v -flfl honors thick upon him, and his inten- H tion to teach the world in general and H his father in paiticular the manner in H which up-to-date commerce should be M conducted stood earnestly holding , M forth In his father's office. H "You may rely upon me," he was M saying wtih perfervid emphasis. "I will M devote my whole life to the interests jH of the business. It shall be my aim H and ambition to keep tho family name 'HI free from stain." M "Good!" said the old man, gruffly. H "That is the spirit. Tell the office boy ;H to give you the whitening and am- H monia; then go and polish up the H brass nameplato at the door." H |