"What did you cook in that helmet?"
"Take your belt in seven holes, and put it where your waist was."
"Are you fourteen years old yet?"
"Personally I don't care to see brown boots, patent shoes nor carpet slippers with uniform."
"And when were you ninety, my poor fellow?"
"Get your belly out of my way."
"Put this unclean person under arrest or under a pump, please, Colonel."
"Can you load a rifle unaided?" and so forth.
The last-mentioned query "Can you load a rifle unaided?" addressed to a weedy youth of seventeen who stood like a living mark-of-interrogation, elicited the reply:—
"Nossir".