A COOL BRITISH SOLDIER
The following story of coolness —or impudence— oil tile part of a British soldier in the trendies is related by one of the best-known of English writers, Mr. Charles Edward Jerningham, formerly "Marmaduke" of "Truth," in these words: — "One of our men in the trenches was ordered to hammer in a post which supported some wire entanglements, and had become loosened. Finding that thero was no hammer, the man coolly walked across to the nearest trench of tho enemy and asked to bo lent a hammer or mallet for tho purpose! "Evidently surprised, and pleased at the courago of the man, one of tho German soldiers handed him a mallet, and tho post having heen straightened and fixed, the man walked back to the German trench, returned the mallet, and calmly rejoined his companions!"-
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 3
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138A COOL BRITISH SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 3
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