Cadet L.: "Stucco is made by mixing gypsum with a large solution."
Instructor: "Large solution of what?"
Cadet: "The text does not state, sir. It just says it is mixed with a solution of size."
Scene: Section room.
Professor: "Now, gentlemen, the Indians made signs of natural and living objects their language. For instance, if they wished to represent the Little Horn River they drew a little horn; and if they wished to represent the Big Horn River, they drew a big horn."
Cadet C.: "Professor, how did they represent the Little Big Horn?"
Such, and such like, keen-worded trifles; a line, or a page long; often very bright, seldom complimentary, but always most impartial in their bestowal of hits.
Miranda: "I think Mr. W. is the most absent-minded cadet I know."
Jenny: "How so, dear?"
Miranda: "Why, last night he took the waltz position when we were just sitting still on the Hotel piazza!"