The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-26

I'll are so frequent you may fail to .recOg
ton. Tho instruments are k. tho lsh
Gen. Comstock, of the quartermastel
force has evidently found the elixil
of perennial youth. He says he feel!
as good as ever, only he has to 81
down now and then to take the loaC
off his feet.
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Ike Bassett, of C Company, and tn,
only Jersey truck raiser in the HON,
reports that around his garden patel
over the way toward the foothills
there are hundreds of young rabbits
and that bushels of blackberries are
going to waste for want of picking.
The Spirit of 81" drum corps
Sam Ross, Henry Taylor, Jim Frazier
and Joe Elder-make musical noise
fully appreciated by all when they
bring forth their traps.
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A deep-water Non-Com,, in view of
the coming of the War Department
inspector, piped an order as follows;
"Scour the windows, holy-stone the
decks, and tidy up Yourself"
Some veterans seem to get up at
daylight these mornings so that they
will have more time to loaf.
Very often T. A. P. men come in
from Branches contiguous to which
third-rail whiskey and hyphenated
suds are dispensed, swallowed and eff
fects retained upon arrival here. Then
co. E members have the extreme
pleasure of being awakened by the
latest rambler's exhibition at night
Of geological nightmare.
Charley Johns, yes; old Reg. Charlie
Of Washington, yes, and Dayton, yes,
and from the Line" yes, Milwaukee
yes, is here YES!
Jimmy Bedell, well known to VET
Grams in several Branches, is rusti-
'ating here this summer and in prime
lightweight condition.
Billy Watson, of D Co., wants to
fface all recollection of life at Hamp-
on, except the good times he had at
intervals with friends.
Lou Sands, master mechanic of the
lilor shop, contemplates visiting his
'lks in Sacramento, Calf, next fall.
The old soldier was again giving
Is Spanish-War chum accounts of the
'awbacks he encountered in cooking
od and especially in the way of I
innate when said he: Il remember }
hen we were at Resaca we used to y
asst bread in the sun and" Young
ldier dnterrupting) Eyes l know ),
ID you drew your breath with a cork
rev." :
About the only useful thing the
aft failed to do was to shut up a
v old 9O-day men who stand
ound wishing they were 81. h,
Imagine being Holy Roller and th
wing boils at the same time. ed
lii
several veterans now living on bor- w,
we'd time have learned recently nj
m experience and the loss of coin ad
t "snuff-dippers" are not so in an
ent as they look. SCI
%*A~ no
or
low curious it is that as soon as :,
Do becomes vacant, when the grass
the other side of the road looks :,
aner to the worker, or hookuorm '"'
in its bite, or the extra duty man "'
sidetracked for stepping out of 'ro
path of rectitude, so many appli- -
IS unfit even to ride on a manure iias
ader beg for the detail? Square our
! won't fill round holes, but dead plo
= fail to realize it. Inc
$3.50 har
ar Department advices are to the mo
It that surgeons who have made our
in the employ of the United pra
IS will be Communicated for SER befC
!; in France. Assistant surgeons
lie Branches have been asked to ri
lteer Some members are mean L. ]
gh to say that they are willing hue,
mber of them should practice at Ray
ont and not in the rear. a Rich