“Noah, nothing,” replied the speaker. “Noah built the ark.”
Father (who has been called upon in the city and asked for his daughter’s hand)—“Louise, do you know what a solemn thing it is to be married?”
Louise—“Oh, yes, pa; but it is a good deal more solemn being single.”
Captain Roald Amundsen, Norway’s famous explorer, told this story about a National Guard encampment:
“A new volunteer, who had not quite learned his business, was on sentry duty, one night, when a friend brought him a pie from the canteen.
“As he sat on the grass eating pie, the major sauntered up in undress uniform. The sentry, not recognizing him, did not salute, and the major stopped and said:
“‘What’s that you have there?’