60A. _Query, Our Daily_.--What is Popocatapetl? Is it an indoor game,
a cannibal tribe, a curative herb, or neither? Solutions are invited.
There are two very advantageous points about this scheme: (1) The
ingenious system of numbering would avoid interference with army
routine, which must go on: and (2) men might be encouraged to read
Regimental Orders.
This suggestion is made without hope of fee or reward. Its author does
not even ask for extra duty pay.
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[Illustration: HIS STOCK-IN-TRADE.
_Tramp_. "CAN YOU SPARE A PORE OLD GENTLEMAN THE PRICE OF A CUP OF
KORFEE. SIR?"
_Sub._ (_in high spirits_). "RIGHT-O. ALL THE COFFEE YOU WANT AND THE
PRICE OF A SHAVE AND A HAIR-CUT AS WELL."
_Tramp_. "WILL YER? THEN WHO'S A-GOIN' TO KEEP ME WHILE MY 'AIR AN'
BEARD GROWS AGAIN?".]
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