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Show The Colonel had been promot-ed promot-ed and to celebrate was giving his regiment a lavish banquet. At the start he addressed his soldiers: sol-diers: "Fall upon the food without with-out mercy, men treat it as you would the enemy.'' Later, as the banquet was ending, he saw a sergeant trying to hide a couple of bottles of wine under his blouse. "What are you doing, sergeant?" ser-geant?" he asked. "Obeying orders, or-ders, sir", was the answer. "What we don't kill of the enemy ene-my we're supposed to take prisoner." |