Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1920 — THIS GETS A LAUGH IN LONDON [ARTICLE]

THIS GETS A LAUGH IN LONDON

Two Tommies, dishevelled, torn with wounds, and altogether untidy, were on leave in London. 'As they stood in Trafalgar Square there approached a detachment of the Windsor Guard in silver trappings, waving .plumes, red coats, long varnished hoots shining like mirrors, and kid gloves. The Tommies looked on in silence for a moment and then one nudged his mate. “Looks, Bill,” he whispered, in an awed voice. “Them’s sojers!”