“Is there not one volunteer?” he asked.
A sergeant stepped forward at salute. “Every one has advanced one pace, sir,” he said.
PA WAS THE GENERAL
The young subaltern, who was a son of a general and never omitted to rub in that fact, was taking a message from the general to the gunners.
“If you please,” he said to the major, “father says will you move your guns.” The major was in an irate mood. “Oh!” he rejoined, “and what the blazes does your mother say?”
TOUGH ON GOMPERS
Kerensky kissed Arthur Henderson, the British labor politician, as the American Labor Mission calls him, and all England gasped. Kerensky is coming to this country. He may want to kiss Secretary Wilson or even President Wilson. This has led an anonymous poet to suggest that the President put his greetings into a song, and to furnish him with the song, as follows:
“Salute me only with thy fist,
And don’t attempt to buss me;
The very thought of being kissed