Sırra in a park near a barrack an old soldier comforted a young recruit who seemed on the verge of tears.
"What's the matter, son?" i "Well," said the young recruit dolefully, "They've stopped my leave, and I wanted to 70 and see my mum and dad."
"Don't worry about that, son," said the old soldier, "Why, look at me! I ain't got nobody," he sighed, "nobody in the world, to go and see... Only the old woman and seven kids,"
The Winner Tae man took his little girl, aged seven, to famous race meeting. It was the first time she aq ever been at such a place.
In one race there were five runners. The other took his daughter to the rails and showed rer the colours of the jockey and the horse he anded would win; as indeed it did—by several lengths, The man was naturally excited, but the child urned to him and said. "Now you've won how vill you get the horse home?"
His Return Ticket He was a foreigner without a passport and wanted to get to. America, Approaching a leaman-like person, he told him of his plight. Over a glass or two, the seaman offered to stow the foreigner aboard a ship for £50.
The foreigner stowaway, at a loss to account for the the twisting, and turnings of the boat, had one conclusion—U boats.
Four days later he declared himself to the officer on the bridge, and said, "I'm a stowaway, are we near New York?"
"No, was the reply,."you're on the river ferry."
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