Show MOTHERS BIBLE SAVED LIFE wauregan waukegan Wauk kegan eoa soldier says book deflected bullet that hit him waukegan wauregan kegan III A little green bible was given him by his mother sirs mrs enoch palm when lie he went weilt to war and which he carried in the right hand io pocket clet of his vest saved tiie life of corporal william palm of hi city who returned home from over eversons sons with two wound stripes and a series of stories about ills his adaven tures turcs in the argonne woods the shells were coming over benl lively declared corporal palm in relating ills narrow escape and I 1 was hunting for a nice comfortable she shell hole I 1 spied one and saw a n dead doodler in it it Is regarded as had bad luck to refuge in a shell hole where there are dead bend so I 1 looked further just its as I 1 leaned over oter to peep into another one a bullet struck me it plowed through the hook book and exploded while it wounded me the book had deflected it so BO it did not penetrate far the fact that I 1 leaned over just at the right moment and the presence of the book saved me from getting a place beneath the daisies |