Off Duty.
That enthusiastic Volunteer, Jack Rackett, holds that, while in camp,
you should consider yourself a soldier for the time being; but, he says,
Tommy has a "deuced good time, don't you know!"
Trouble in the Band.
Bugler: "'Ere, if you go on increasin' at this rate, Fatty, you'll
'ave to send in your resignation. You won't be able to reach the middle
o' the drum soon!"
You may be traffic manager of a railway, but you cannot know as much about a baggage train as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps who has been at it for a week.
Now this is the creed of the Subaltern.—
The Subaltern knows everything and does everything.
The Captain knows (?) everything and does nothing.
The Major knows nothing and does nothing.