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Show FINALLY SEVERED RED TAPE But Messenger Had to Declare Himself Him-self Emphatically Before He Got That Ice Book. The quartermaster's department had conferred upon me authority to buy for the sum of $G an ice book gooo for 2,000 pounds of ice and had sent me to this building, headed up "Commissary," "Commis-sary," for the goods. The first cleric I saw did not question my good inten-, inten-, tions or my legal and military right to buy that ice hook somewhere in the building, but was doubtful of his authority au-thority to sell it to mo. lie lacked self-confidence. self-confidence. Lie said : "Go to the other end of the building." And he said: "Go to the other side of the building." And he said : "Go to the other end of the building." And I said: "D It. I've been to three ends ami five sides of this building build-ing and I go no further. If you've got an ice hook and I have reasons for .believing you have I ask you as man to man to give it us." lie said: "Sir, it is yours." Booit-nifin. Booit-nifin. """" |