Show 11 at the beginning the medical officer felt that he was not getting straight answers from the recruit who seemed not to know what illnesses he had had in the past well tell me the heaviest you have ever weighed the M 0 suggested one hundred forty pounds the recruit answered the AT 0 made a note 6 and the lightest snapped the M 0 seven pounds sir replied the recruit without blinking an eyelid strange did ile he say you have such strange names for your towns an englishman remarked to an american soldier weehawken Wee hawken hoboken poughkeepsie ke epsie and others I 1 1 I suppose they do sound queer to english ears said the A american meri thoughtfully do you live in london afi all the time oh not no said the unsuspicious briton 1 I spend part of my time at chipping norton and then ive a place at on the hike no doubt ff hats up has aai she turned you yoa doun she has rough luck old man but don t take lake tt is to heart hears too loo much A hainan s no often means 1 yes es she didn dian t say wo no she said rats slip upa up A mancho man who had been stopping at a fashionable hotel was paying his bill he looked up at the girl cashier and asked what it was she had around her neck A ribbon of course she said why well he be replied everything else is so high around here that I 1 thought perhaps it was your belt what could they be A small girl was entertaining her mothers visitor hows your little girl she asked im sorry to say my dear that I 1 a little girl hows your little boy 1 I a little boy either then what are yours had sowed bowed the visitor going around the penal settlement came upon a convict making sacks good afternoon said the visitor sewing no was the reply reaping lets go jasper 1 I am not myself tonight joan then we ue ought to have a good time that got him joan why did your cousin quit his job as riveter was it too noisy for him jasper oh he mind the noise of the riveting but the fel low next to him hummed incessantly some folks never stop to ito think there are others who never think to stop |