“I understood you all right, but I had to look in first to see if any one was in the room to call ‘come in.’”
A Pertinent Question
Corporal:—“Recruit Neier, how many more times must I tell you to hold your head up! What makes you look at the grass all the time; haven’t you had your breakfast yet?”
Subordination
Major (narrating):—“But when, on the thirteenth of October, the battle of Leipzig was fought——”
Lieutenant:—“Excuse me, Major; that was on the eighteenth.”
Major:—“Young man, do you think you know it better than I? I tell you it was on the thirteenth.”
Lieutenant:—“I do know it was not, for only lately I read the history of the battle by a famous historian.”
Major:—“Don’t talk to me about any of your scribblers. I—your Major—tell you it was on the thirteenth.”