RECRUITING OFFICE STORY.
A story is current of a magnificently attired gentleman who presented himself to the recruiting authorities and treated the humorous sergeant with great superiority. The newcomer had a watch-chain with many seals, a glittering brcast-pin„ resplendent studs and cuff links,; a cane with a knob which shrieked defiance at the- world, and numerous other devices of this earth’s vain show. “Ah, sergeant, look sharp, would j r ou, with my details; I have —ah an important engagement!’’ But the sergeant was surveying him dreamily, and searching quietly for something he could not find. “I have it,” he said, springing to his feet, and startling the fop out of his feeble wits; “heavens, man,'ye’s forgotten your earrings!”
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 200, 22 September 1916, Page 3
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119RECRUITING OFFICE STORY. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 200, 22 September 1916, Page 3
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