Show m i Ie l c At the Beginning The medical officer felt that he was not getting straight answers from the recruit who seemed not notto notto to know what illnesses he had had hadin hadin in the past Well tell me the heaviest you have ever weighed the M. M O. O suggested One hundred forty pounds the recruit answered The M. M O. O made a note 4 And Md the ligh lightest est snapped the M. M O. O Seven pounds sir replied the recruit without blinking an eye eye- lid Strange Did lie He Say You have such strange names for your towns an Englishman remarked to an American soldier Weehawken Hoboken Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie and others I suppose they do sound queer to English ears said the Ameri- Ameri American can thoughtfully Do you live in London all the time Oh no I said the unsuspicious Briton I spend part of my time at Chipping Norton and then Ive I've Ivea a place at the on No Doubt Wha has up-has she turned you down oun She has hal Rough lough luck old man Gut don dont take ake it to 0 heart hear too muck much A No open often means Yes She didn't didn say No she said Rau Slip Up A man who had been stopping at ata a fashionable hotel was paying his bill He looked d up at the girl cash cash- cashier cashier ier and asked what it was she had around her neck A ribbon of course she said Why Wen Well he replied everything else is so high around here that I thought perhaps it was your belt What Could They Be A small girl was entertaining her mothers mother's visitor Hows your little girl she asked Im sorry to say my dear that I haven't a little girl Hows H ws w's your little boy I 1 haven't a little boy either Then what are arc yours Had Sowed The visitor going around the penal settlement came upon a con con- convict convict vict making sacks Good afternoon said the tor Sewing No was the reply Reap Reaping ing Lets Let's Go Jasper Jasper-I am not myself tonight Then Joan we ue ought to have hate a good time That Got Him Dim Why Joan did your cousin quit his job as riveter Was it too noisy for him Jasper Oh he didn't mind the noise of the riveting but the fellow fel- fel fellow low next to him hummed inces- inces incessantly incessantly I Some folks never stop to think there are others who never think to stop |