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Show Made Him Nervous. The colonel of 32-ith infantry -was out on a night prowl when the regiment regi-ment was in a quiet sector. Suddenly his path was .blocked by a gigantic doughbov, who addressed him in a stage whisper: - . : "Halt, wlto goes there! '' ' Commanding officer," the colonel whispered back. "Advance, coniinnnding officer, and givo' the password.' ' ' The password was stealthily murmured mur-mured in the doughboy's ear. Then tho colonel whispered: "How far is it to the trenches?" "Three miles, sir." You could hear the colonel all over the block as he demanded loudly an explanation of why he had been "kept whispering with the Germans three miles away. "I gotta tumble cold," the doughboy dough-boy explained. Stars and Stripes. |