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Show NO WONDER THEY LAUGHED American Soldier In Parlo Had Made a Smalt Mistake In Copying the Street Name. During the war, while I wns on leave of absence In Paris, relates a returned re-turned soldier, I decided to tako a walk nlonc. I thought It advisable to copy down tho name 0 the street In which I was staying, so I wroto down some words printed on tho sidewalk. When 1 was ready to return I found that I could not locate tho street where my hotel was, so I approached a woman, showed her what I had written writ-ten In my book, and tried to lenrn from her whero the placo wns. Sho laughed and snld something in French, which, of course, 1 did not understand, under-stand, nnd passed on. A number of times I did the samo thing, and every one I stopped Inughed, and passed on until a man snld In English, "What Is It you wnnt?" Delighted to find that I hnd discovered discov-ered one person who spoke English, I said, "That Is the name of the street where I nm staying, nnd I am lost. Will you please direct me?" "You haven't written down n street .....,..( ..... .. ... ... . . |