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'1 For Pun S7i Dear frie Sy l\ letter 1 am ge f hear as a sole / pal war "ticks arc j?y.v ** from your c _f)s jt?1 am feeling t! w nTTlL-/ qultlngthis.il W Jf?" fealing on thi Jwj, .^-v K life befoar wl ' V" V 'yr^, "?8 ' anc* yo' 5?C'' > ( ?ne '00<* now J fcW^ /\VV we havent ha< JI y^. 1 )V the guvmi?t c m A ^X^cR ? heated and tl ?M?worse than cc ?ajs by men J he clame I ?7*Vv?I men geting cc I I they on'y I /E^f^rxVl Parts ?' them | U^v-Vgy * one as It mab "POtvATF Jlfl" mM?U h,m 80 that 11 VRrvnit Jin yQu ^ uQdei it hay al. spe it of what it was 1 was going to put bat not so mutch about the sarjlnt 1 with him all the time and maiks hin this thing al that the sarjint h is his whlatall witch he carries on a ho is wanting to malk a pryvat do s J,.- or something, you realeyes al that eggzept what i have put into It my blowing & you know al what a sound and put there hands over there ears.: ft quit work by the time clok but no come out hear to this can Tonement < about beeing a soldger. the 1st time this whlstall blue a ft of coarse wasent expect it to be well when the whlstall blue the 1st my mouth and let out 1 of those bl there hands over there ears, i thot < guy that can whlstall with his mot r&: jKfA ,r . . I 5*4' fa ! W ? 1 One of the drawings submitted ir RECRUITS BECOME GUARDSMEN t' In many cantonments affected, the gf- Question has been discussed as to just what is the status of recruits transferred from the National Army <n <l.n XTallnnol CiiqpH Thin flllpstlnn ia disposed of officially by the an,;? n'ouncement that all such transferred < . men are taken up on the National * : Guard rolls of the organizations to riV which they are assigned. They become National Guardsmen In every respect and will be treated In every i.way aa original members of the organisation, according to a memoranPdum Issued from the Adjutant-Gen . TRENCH t 2 Whistling Prii BY OUR OWN R nd al: well al by now when you get this ittlng so that 1 woodent chalnge this life Iger for the old Job as long as this here lund witch 1 hope will be some time take >ld pal. their Is a bunch of reasons why his way about what 1 menshun about not fe but one of the mane ones is that 1 am 5 whole better than 1 ever of felt In my tch Is saying a good deel after the par a. ust to have asent we to ai. iney i? and we have heat In our bareux witch d rite along because the sarjlnt told me lldent want to have no men geting over hen mebbe catching cold or something lid witch Is some times caut the sarjlnt ust starting Into the army, a the guvmint take precautions vs the ild feat by makelng the bare ux cold so have cold feat but also cold In the other not there teat, this system al Is a good :es a fellas feat the same as the rest of lelr alnt such a thing as cold feat witch stand after my giving you. this dope on aklng of the sarjlnt al malks me remind In this letter witch Is about the sarjlnt llsself as about what he carries a round a a sarjlnt. as to malk him different from a.pryvat chain In his pockit and blows on when umtmng or get tne Duncn quiet it uowu ; their has been no whistall in my life self by using 2 fingers in my mouth & 1 can maik so that the girls will sltreach I Of got up by the alarm clok in the a. m. whistall so that it was new stuff when 1 & find a whistall is 1 of the mane things 1 it was something 1 knew nothing about up on all the fine points of this galm. time 1 heard it al i stuck my fingers in lasts like the 1 that maid the girls put avery one lookt at me as If here is some ith better than the stiff up their with BRINUINU HUM i the Trench and Lamp Lartoon Loni the next issue of 1 WANTED NO HINDRANCES "Yes, I's registered all right, and I's already concreted; what you gonna Join, de Infamy or de calvary?" "No calvary for me. I's goln' In dat Infamy. When de Genrul sound de word 'Retreat.' dis nigger don' wan' to be bothered with no hosa." ADDING TO THEIR PLEASURE "Look here. Why do you have 'Keep Off the Grass' signs all over the park? Tou don't enforce the rule." "No, sir," said the guard. "The sigh Is there to jnake people enjojr being on the grass." IMP CAMP late Jim Is The tNG W. GARDNER chev runs onto his sleaves can with a but my whi8tall with two fingers v nobodf could help but notus it. aftfcr 1 had blue there was nothii serjint blue on his whistall agen anc of coarse it couldent be maid lite a that whistall of the sarjints that wai rong hear and it was a longer whisti the blast was hardly moar than over let me say to you al their wood of b heard that blast witch i pulled to sh( 2 fineers in mv mouth for about 30 lookt around to me as mutch as to pi to beat i felt to my own mind their 1 with qo tin whistall becaus al it is < can be pulld. after i had took my fingers frc doing in that room only silunts. thei silunt8 al after i had showed up th< know one and other well enuf al so t hard fealing on my part about this li al 1 doant believ he felt that their v silunts was past and gone he hollei such a weigh that their was no dou whlstalling. i wasent wanting to boast about lered who was it i could only admit littel as like 1 was chesty about it wii stept out and said come hear sarjinf how to whistall my weigh, be got re could get a weigh with whlstalling only said step up this way witch i c give him the dope on. MY whistall ! couple or reglar soiagers witn ewenir kind of a house witch they did. i w days wrestfuly spent as i hadent to d well al now i am ust to the pun his tin 1 and when it blows i get up i talking in the ranx or grab my mest k it is the whistall is blowing 4 even if 2 fingers, i of lernd that it aint the wl youi IE THE BACON" 777' VXTf test. Announcement of the winner rrench and Camp NO "SPRINGING UP" FOR HIM It was in a churchyard. The morning sun shone brightly and the dew was still on the grass. "Ah, this Is the weather that makes things spring up," remarked a passerby casually to an old gentleman seated on a bench. "Hush!" replied the old gentleman. "I've got three wives buried here." MAIL IT TO MOTHER Trench and Camp contains news of all the cantonments in the country and yours particularly. Send this paper back to the home folks. re, But? tin 1. mebbe 1 shouldent say it myself ;fl l| ras over the sarjint's like a tent and ||| Qg doing for several! minnits, finely the V (J III I i all tho it was just a tin whistall and u I sent nice. It seemed to say well whats VUll\Jtr ill than the first blast he blue, well nl with when 1 ups with my 2 fingers and 2S555S en sum screachlng of the girls could of <T|i fai jw up the 1 of the sarjints. 1 kepp the sekonds and every fella In that buntch L/C iss the remark their is 1 for the sarjint |y|/A^vjl is no dalnger of the sarjint beating that |l/ Ky?JJI inly by flesh & blud that sutch a wistall )Ly\ jj 1 (jll im out of my mouth their was nothln ml Jj r must of ben about 5 minnits worth of 3 sarjint with my whistall. i and you luj 1w Jul .hat you will realeyes that their was no B 111 IS^nj ittle competishun with the sarjint. but Ml # ray about it for after the 5 minnits of BTjl M D red out who did that, he hollered in BFiflJl B bt that he felt he had lost out in tbo Jflf |w jflpB . my whistall but when the sarjint hoithat it was mine even if it did look a W fflj tch i wasent you know me al. well al 1 IM llfl j|HB' and lie be glad to give you the dope on IfflH d in the face as mutch as to say I never lid. well al instead of him letting me efffljffl HJ he blows his whistall agen and tells a I orms that fit them to put me Into some I < /an only their 2 days al but it was two \ /^in|N o mulch or nothing but just sit around. k whistalling witch the sarjint pulls on lTT'nTT|W n the a. m. or come to atenshun or stop Bfyjimja it and run down to nicst or do whatever it is punk & 1 could do better with my [ listall that counts but the guy behind it. rj^ old pal, PRIVATE JIM. [.yj looan, T ^ ^"1 of the wrist watch will be made in HER INJUSTICE The bride received her husband *^ZZz with even more than usual affection. || aT 7M*M "Charlie, dear, I have done you a "V,"? 7^. , "*? great injustice," she cooed. [I III "How's that?" "I thought you were deceiving me |l| I Jill and I asked every one of your man i |J III friends if you knew how to play J ill 111 poker. They all said that you didn't" ,'| | CIPHER STUFF ]| ||[| ||j| Miss !!?;:!?: IJ 111! "How's that?" rXTl ."Side's one and I'm nothing." - ?- ? ?
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