STROKE OF LUCK
A story is current that a certain colonel of a British regiment offered to give a sovereign for every German killed by any of his men.
It happened shortly after this that a sergeant and a private were out spying around, and took different points for observation.
After a while the private crawled up to the sergeant with a look of suppressed excitement on his face, and in a tense whisper said:
“Here’s a fine piece of luck for us, sergeant! There’s four thousand Germans over yonder, and there’s only you and me for ’em. Won’t we rake some quids in now?”