The Irish adjutant’s wife was telling Bridget about her husband.
“My husband, Bridget,” she said, proudly, “is at the head of the Tipperary militia.”
“Oi t’ought as much, ma’am,” said Bridget, cheerfully. “Ain’t he got th’ foine malicious look?”
KAISER WILHELM II
“I don’t know that there is much use in keeping my school open more than a month or two each year,” said the German pedagogue.
“Why is that?”
“Our Emperor has simplified matters to such an extent that when you ask the name of the world’s greatest poet, painter, musician, general, traveller, or monarch, there is only one answer to all the questions.”
AS SEEN IN FRANCE
Two French soldiers took their places in the trenches—the one middle-aged, who had long since received his baptism of fire, the other a mere youth, whose chattering teeth and blanched face proved it was his first experience of real war.