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Show NO CHANCE TO WIN GLORY Youthful Recruit Found He Was Not Adapted by Nature for a Drummer Boy. The irreverent man had been aroused by talk of the war to tell an anecdote, and those about him really thought that the gravity of the subject sub-ject would make him reverent this time. He said: "At the time of the Spanish-American war I was a boy at .school. I was fired with tremendous patriotic zeal. I decided to steal away unbeknownst to my parents and enlist as a drummer drum-mer boy. You see, I was old enough for that, and I was a robust youngster, young-ster, so I expected no trouble at all with the military authorities. "So, Instead of going to school one morning, I hurried to a recruiting station sta-tion and told the officer in charge that I wanted to be drummer boy. "Ah, me! Though years have passed, it is still an awful memory." He sighed. Those listening were much impressed. "Didn't they take you on as a drummer boy?" they inquired. "No," he groaned. "Why?" "Because because I had no ear for music!" |