Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — Grim Humor. [ARTICLE]

Grim Humor.

Even on the field of battle the soldied is humorous, sometimes grimly so. A soldier was seen in the trenches holding his hands above the earthworks. His captain asked: “What are you doing that for?” He replied with a grim, as he wcrked his fingers: "I’m feeling for a furlough (just then a rifle ball struck him in the wrist, and a queer commingling of pain and humor passed over his face), an’ 1 get a discharge. ”