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"Here that'll do!" he cried. "If I hear any more of that, Lanec, corporal. Jones, you'll be for it Get that gun loaded, as I told you."
"It was!!
"Do as you're told and don't argua!!!
And Jones subsided, muttering. Cuthbert, grinning wickedly, rais ed the gun for adjustment, opened the
smartly, ammunition box plunged in a hand--and drew out, like 'n rabbit from a conjurer's hat -aboltle of lemonndel
"Oh, help!" walled Sergeant Soames. "That's just what I should) expect from you fellers. Somebody tells you that spare ammo," boxes are useful for carrying things In," and you remember that if you for-"
get, everything else! Get another box.
Cuthbert got another box.
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He also got another bottle of lemonade; and Sergeant Soames became slightly hysterical. Pearson, completely taken aback by this un- expected turning, of cartridges into mineral waters, hastened to procure the third and last-box.
"What's all the trouble, ser- geant!" Captain Grant, having seen the other guns properly mounted, approached No. 4.
"Well, sir, they've brought a 'D.P. gun and seem to think they can fire lemonade through it. I know what's happened, sir," he ex- plained. "They know we bring an extra box of ammunition, and one man thinks if he puts in a bottle of pop Instead of the belt It won't matter. P'raps it wouldn't; only another man has the same idea, but. Awops another box, and so--Hey, Pearson, put that box back! That ain't
But Cuthbert was already in ac-1 tion, and, produce to the public, gaze Sergeant Soames's private bottle of beer!....
No one had anything helpful to say..
At Inat Captain Grant eloured his throat and ventured a remark.
"Er-doesn't that make us a lit- ile short of-cr-real ammuni- Lion?"
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Sergeant Suames's volce was both still and small as he replied:
"Ahem! Yes, sir; we shall need one more box to complete the prac tice, even if we borrow from the other guns."
"Well, I'll run .someone back in ...my car to fetch one. In the mean-'
Lime, you carry on. I'd better take someone responsible - Corporal Jones, you had better come."
No. 1 being withdrawn, it falls to the lot of No. 2 to take his place:| and Cuthbert, to his horror, found himself faced with the prospect of j being first in his team, to fire. Needless to say, the responsibility, such as it was, threw him into a dreadful flutter, and he proceeded to fulfil his normal role of "warn- ing to young soldiers" by making all the mistakes possible; finally, succeeding In Jamming the mechan ism in some extraordinary way that necessitated the almost complete dismantling of the gun.
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At last, however, when Sergeant, Soames was debating in his mind, the points for and against murder or suicide, all the guns were ready! to begin "ranging" at iron plates. set up in front of the butts, and the sergeant gave the signal.
There was a loud report and a burst of flame from the mechanism of No: 4 gun-and Cuthbert shot backwards with great velocity.
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"What the blazes are you doin'?" inquired the harassed sergeant.
"The goon be blowed up!" gasped Cuthbert, finding to his surprise that he was still alive.
"There you are!" cried Sergeant Soames. "Now you see what a 'D.P.' gun will do.... Here what the now look at that! A round has gone off in the feed block and blown the belt to hell! Let's have
n' look at the fuzoe-spring.
Now there is on the Vickers gun
a piece of mechanism of this name) which aids the working parts to
come into the firiig position. This spring should have a pull of some eight pounds. The sergeant tested ita adjustment and groaned.AD
Well, I suppose it's my fault. for not going over every
point. Corporals Bahl The fuzee- spring-welghs - about - four
pour and doe Flet
clear the
the
block In
ARE YOU "GOIN' OUT?
I THOUGHT HE WANTED THIS SUIT-I GUESS HE'S OUT- NO. ONE ANSWERS THE DOOR-BELL-
CAN YOU BEAT
"THAT? HE. WENT OUT AFTER ALL I
SAID AND WE HAVE NO KET TO GET IN-
ITELL YOU I AIN'T BEEN OUT" OF THE HOUSE CAN'T YOU SEE
I'M IN ME UNDER SHIRT?
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GOSH! JIGGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE TWO HOURS AGO-
WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND WAIT TILL HE COMES HOME - ·
THAT'S ALL
DON'T LIE TO ME THAT'S AN OLD TRICK
OF URS-
1. GUESS HE LOST ANOTHER
BATTLE AT HOME-
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE
THAT ROSIĘ WOULD GO TO EUROPE WITHOUT
SAYING, GOOD-BYE TO ME-I MUST FIND HER BEFORE THE BOAT SAILS-
THOUGHT MY WIFE- HAD A BAD DISPOSITION; BUT JIGG S' WIFE TOPS
HER.
BOY! AMIJN LUCK? W KIN GIT TO BURKE'S,
SHIN DIC ÄN BE BACK BEFORE THEY GIT HOME (WISH THAT TAILOR{" WOULD HURRY. AN
BRING MY SUIT BACK-
IWANNA WEAR IT. TO-NIGHT-
CALL HIM UP. EVEN IF HIS WIFE ANSWERS THE PHONE, SHE CAN'T HIT YOU
SUFFERIN CATS: I MUST" HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP. IT'S ONE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNIN' AN' I
MISSED BURKE'S PARTY-
YOU CAME HOME AND SAW WE WERE
ASLEEP YOU STEPPED OVER US AND WENT IN THE HOUSE- THEN YOU:
TOOK OFF YOUR
SHIRT TO MAKE
IT LOOK AS IF YOU WERE HOME I ALL EVENING- GET UP, YOU RENEGADE -
GRACIOUS! ARCHIE MUST BE ANGRY NE
A SEVERE WAY TO SAILTO EUROPE WITHOUT TELLING
ME: OH, DEAR!" "WHERE 1SHE?
GOSHLIVE LOOKED 'ALL OVER THE BOAT WHERE GAN SHE BE?
MUST SEE HER BEFORE SHE SAILS:
DEAR ME! WHERE C HE BE? I'VE LOOKED BALL OVER FOR HIM PETELNOT LEAVE THIS BOATHOU UNTIL S HIME
WEVE CALLED UP SIX
TIMES,
BUT NOBODY 'ANSWERS.
HE'S PROBABLY
·LOCKED
UP
4 HOURS LATER-
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HAVE FERGOTTEN. THEIR KEYS AN'T
DIDN'T HEAR THEM RING
THE BELL
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