Our Reserves!

Aide-de-Camp (at the review). "What are you doing here, sir? Where's your regiment?"

Party on the Grass. "Shure I don' know. Bu-r I don't rec'nise your 'thority, gov'nour!"

Aide-de-Camp (furious). "What the deuce d'you mean, sir? You're a Volunteer, aren't you?"

Party on the Grass. "(Hic!) Norabirofit!—Was jus' now—bu-r I've reshigned 'n cons'quence—temp'ry indishposition!"