Never Deserts
“May I offer you some dessert, Lieutenant?”
“Thank you—but a Lieutenant never deserts!”
One Thing Forgotten
Corporal (to his men, with whose drilling the Colonel has just found fault):—“I tell you this much, you fellows, if you don’t do any better, we shall drill the whole day, have field practice at night, bivouac afterwards, without fire, without straw, without cooking, and with the thermometer ten degrees below zero.”
A voice from the ranks:—“Why don’t you let it rain too!”
Rather Mixed
Ten minutes after taps:—“Oh say! don’t run so hard. We’ll get there early enough to be—too late.”