“And what is this at my feet?”
“Salt-bags; you have had frost-bite.”
A soldier from the next bed looked up and said:
“Hang the pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.”
NOT TO BE DONE
A certain soldier always looked on the dark side of things. One day a friend tried to cheer him.
“Why don’t you do as the song says, ‘Pack all your troubles in your old kitbag, and smile, smile, smile’?”
“I tried that once,” he said, sadly, “but the Quartermaster didn’t have enough kitbags.”
UNCERTAIN TRAIN SCHEDULE
A soldier was waiting for the Muddleton train, the only one of the day. After he had waited for an unreasonable time the porter hove in sight.