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Show NO DOUBTING HIS MEANING Corporal's Words Must Have Con-tained Con-tained Full Information Even to the Most Unintelligent. This week's story from the front: A certain company sergeant major was not popular with his men. They accused him of having cold feet. One day the company went into a rest camp 20 miles behind the firing line, where it was an impossibility any shells could reacli them. The ground, however, was very waterlogged, and a fatigue party was detailed to dig a drainage trench. Presently a sergeant happened to pass that way. "What are you digging there?" he shouted to the corporal in charge of the job. A grimy face, from which the sweat was pouring, popped up from the trench. It belonged to one of the sergeant ser-geant major's most persistent and relentless re-lentless adversaries. "Dlggin' a communication trench from the sergeants' mess to the sergeant ser-geant major's dugout," he shouted, In a voice well within hearing of the mess tent, at the entrance to which the N. C. O. in question was standing. Pearson's Pear-son's Weekly. |