Show what a bandy man can do A young volunteer in a light cavalry regiment quartered up country in algeria was in despair at having lost the back caso of his watch which was likely to become a depository for rather more desert sand than is compatible with regular time keeping cant you tig up something that will tako its place he asked his orderly who was a jack of all trades and who bad been apprenticed to a watchmaker watch maker before he went into the army 1 I will see what I 1 can do sergeant was the reply morning at the first trumpet call the good fellow entered the tent of his superior and handed him his watch shining like a small warming pan in the sun how inthe devils name did you manage so cleverly well I 1 just went out and hada bout with the band and the trombone being rather the j woe for liquor 11 was ablo tto 11 i f v |