“My good man, why aren’t you in the trenches? Aren’t you willing to do anything for your country?”
Turning around slowly, he looked at her a second and replied contemptuously:
“Move on, you slacker! Where’s your war-baby?”
WHY TOMMY JOINED THE CHURCH
“Tommy Atkins” pleaded exemption from church parade on the ground that he was an agnostic. The sergeant-major assumed an expression of innocent interest.
“Don’t you believe in the Ten Commandments?” he mildly asked the bold freethinker.
“Not one, sir,” was the reply.
“What! Not the rule about keeping the Sabbath?”
“No, sir.”