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Show What He Didn't Understand. The soldier was telling the workman work-man about a battle that he had once been in that had tasted from eight o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock at night. His description wan most graphic, and he became very enthusiastic en-thusiastic as he lived through the stirring stir-ring scenes again. "There's one thing I can't understand under-stand about the story," said the workman, work-man, slowly, when he had finished. "You say that the battle began at eight o'clock in the morning and lasted last-ed until sev3n o'clock at night?" "Yes, that s so," was the reply. "Then," retorted the workman with a puzzled air, "what I can't make out is how did you manage about your dinner hour?" |