The Archive · 1940

At the Double

Tre two Scots in training with the colours had been at loggerheads for a long time.

Eventually they decided to forgive and forget and to have a friendly drink.

"What'll you have?" asked one.

"Double whisky," replied the othe "Double!" gasped his companion. go—starting the row all over again Grouse Tur orderly about bread. officer received a complaint "Soldiers should not make a fuss about trivialities, my man," he said. "If Napoleon had had that bread when he was crossing the Alps he'd have eaten it with delight."

Yes, sir," said the lance-corporal, "but it was probably fresh then."

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