Show Strictly Neutral I Amon Among the humorous and human stories in Dr T T. T L I. L. L Pennell's recent beok book Among the Wild Tribes of or the Afghan Frontier is one of a British officer in the valley who interrogated interrogated interrogated inter inter- an Afridi with regard lo to what was then considered a probable conflict con con- filet c t. t Now tell me said the tho officer I If there were to be war which war which God forbid for for- bid bid between between Russia and nd England what part would you and your people take Whom would you side with Do you wish me to tell you what would please you or to tell you ou the thereal thereal real truth was the naive reply I 1 adjure you to tell me what Is the white word Then said the old graybeard we would just sit up here on our mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain tops watching you both fight un til we saw one or the other derE deft defeated Then hen we would come down and loot the vanquished till Ull the last mule God is great What a time that would be for us |