Behind that workmanlike heading lies as ory which it falls to Ip. to tell, News having reached the authorities that $5,000,000 worth of food was in dire peril arrangements were made for its rescue, and the gentlemen who do everything from milking cows to herding swine were ut out, with the connivance of the Japanese to bring in the food supplies before they lost patience and walked in by the themselves: whole manceuvre complete wasp success.
reaching the storage place a strange sight met the rescuers. The 4 butter was taking things quietly and the eggs on the whole were beating up as well as could be expected. The sight of immediate relief, however completely unmanned them. Hurry-their boxes, thousands of eggs, brown eggs, white eggs, large eggs, small. eggs, good eggs and bad eggs threw themselves on their knees and with hands clasped in supplication begged for immediate release. "Save us," they cried in unison, "Lest we all become addled." Henfruit, which in normal times maintains a sort of self-contained complacency. threw all reserve to the wind, and one particularly bad egg folding its arms round the Sergeant-majo neck, murmured coyly "Kiss me. 1 saviour!"
"Dear, dear, wh the sergeant-major, as overcome lapsed into regimental vernacular, and quickly seizing his lanyard, strangled the poor wr then and there.
Thousands upon thousands of og: then filed' out of the -godown in orderly manner, hardly deigning to glance at the corpse of the comrade who had thus forgotten the convenances, while the sergeant-major. remarking that after all war was War, walked out behind them with regimental "Hrrrumph!"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.