“He blew another cloud of smoke. Then he answered:
“‘You’d better go off and make your own autograph worth having.’”
NOT AS IT SEEMED
Whilst making his usual daily inspection of the stables the colonel noticed Private Jones giving his horse a piece of lump sugar.
“I am very pleased to see you making much of your horse, Private Jones,” he said; “it shows that you regard him with the true spirit, and I will not forget you for it.”
Private Jones waited until his commanding officer was out of earshot, and then turned to his neighbor.
“I wasn’t making much of him,” he said. “The blighter threw me off this morning, and I’m trying to give him the blinkin’ toothache.”
THERE WERE HOPES
Mollie (aged seven), English, and proud of it, was presented with a new and beautiful doll one morning.