Show REASON FOR HIS BRAGGING british soldier felt feli he had to lie about his wonderful deeds deeda in the field an officer was waa surprised one day when searching the letters of his detachment tach ment to read in one af them a passage that was something like this we have bavo just got out of shellfire shell fire tor for the first time for two months it has bee been n a hard time the germans were determined to take our held field bakery but ut by geol geel we would not lot let them we Wo killed them in thousands this was waa a letter from one of the bakers to his big wib wife none mono of the detachment tach ment had been a mile from the base and they had never seen a german eident except HB aas a prisoner my friend know knew the writer well and could not nhep hel it etwas was fione none of his business ne asang him ht M why he told such flu 0 h terrible lies to his poor wife the soldier said its bulke true what you say but it its ita a like ilko this sir when my wife and the wives of the ahe other men in the place where I 1 live are talking it all over in the morning I 1 think to let her have nothing to say and the others all bragging about what their men had bad done with the germans the way of it sir at manchester an cheater guardian |