OFF DUTY
A Dozen Yarns for Soldiers and Sailors
BY IRVING BACHELLER
OFF DUTY – KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE – “Sam Henshaw’s girl had graduated an’ gone abroad with her mother. One Sunday ’bout a year later, Sam flew up to the door o’ my house in his automobile. He lit on the sidewalk an’ struggled up the steps with two hundred an’ forty-seven pounds o’ meat on him. He walked like a man carryin’ a barrel o’ pork. He acted as if he was glad to see me an’ the big armchair on the piaz’
“‘What’s the news?’ I asked.
