A little time afterwards the other one went up and said: “A glass of beer for a Grenadier!”
Pat was not to be taken down so easily, and after a few moments’ thought went up to the bar and, in a loud voice, ordered “A good tea for a V. C.!”
NEVER FAZED HIM
At a recruiting meeting recently the speaker, having got his audience in a high state of enthusiasm by telling them of the many brave deeds of the British soldiers in France, suddenly espied a big, strongly built man at the back of the hall. “My man,” he cried, “how is it that you are not at the front?”
“Oh, it is all right,” replied the burly yokel; “I can hear every word you say from here.”
STAY-AT-HOME TOILET
A South London resident, whose garden runs down to the railway line, has hit upon a novel recruiting advertisement.
He has hung out two old petticoats with a poster reading:
“If you won’t help your King and Country now you had better wear these.”