After hesitating, a small but courageous boy held up his hand and blurted out: “Why are you not in khaki?”
BEST OF REASONS
“No, sir, I don’t believe in war,” cried the little man. “It means invasion and confiscation and a forcible and brutal alteration of existing boundaries.”
The man across the way turned to his companion and asked in a whisper who the little man was.
“He is a mapmaker,” the companion whisperingly replied, “and he’s got an immense stock of old maps on hand.”
MOST UNUSUAL
A British officer inspecting sentries guarding the line in Flanders came across a raw-looking yoeman.
“What are you here for?” he asked.
“To report anything unusual, sir.”
“What would you call unusual?”