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Show An Improvised Watch Cue. A young volunteer in a light cavalry regiment quartered up country in Algeria Al-geria was in despair at having lost the back case of his watch, which was likely to become a depository for rather more desert sand than is compatible with regular timekeeping. "Can't you rig up something that will take its place?" he asked his ordorly, who was a jack-of-all-trades and had been apprenticed to a watchmuker before ho went into the army. "I will see what I can do," was the reply. Next morning at the first trumpet call the good fellow entered the tent of the voluteer and handed him his watch, shining like a small warming pan in the sun. "How did you manage so clover-ly?" clover-ly?" "Well, you see, I just went out and had a bout with the band, and getting the trombone I was able to abstract the valve of the instrument and easily hammered ham-mered it into shape." Paris Cor. Jeweler's Jewel-er's Weekly. |