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Show RATHER PAY THAN SERVE. Citizen 8oldler's Unique Idea of the Duties of a Sentry. Australians still toll stories ot tho C. L. V.'s, nlthough tho war Is a far memory. One, a member of the Stock Exchange, wns left one wet and miserable miser-able night to guard a wagonlond of goods. Ho shivered In the unsheltered place for some hours pondering many things, and then a bright thought struck him just as tho colonel came around on his tour of Inspection. "Colonel," ho asked, "how much Is this wagon wnrth7" "I don't know," was the answer. "Much or little, we enn't afford to lose It." "Well, but colonel," persisted the amateur soldier, "you might glvo mo a rough Idea of tho value." "About 200," said tho' Colonel testily. "Very woll," wns tho answer. "I will come down .to the camp nnd give you a cheok for tho amount. Then I'll turn In, I wouldn't catch my death of cold for twlco that much." What the colonel said Is not recorded. re-corded. Melbourne Times. |