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Show SMOKES AND BANDAGES The mails from home had been received re-ceived by a certain regiment. One Tommy received a large box addressed address-ed to himself, and with a triumphant yell he rushed off to his company's lines and gathered them around him to share the contents of the box. "Smokes, lads," he cried, as he unfastened un-fastened the wrapping. "From the old man, I know it, and there's sure to be a bottle or two of Scotch." Ho opened the box, gave one look and collapsed in a heap. "It's from old Aunt Mary," groaned the warrior, j "Bandages an' intment, an' embrocation, embroca-tion, an' splints, an' a book on 'ow to be your own surgin." |