“Of course! And the very next day I took eight men!”
“All wounded, I expect,” sneered a listener. “You didn’t get hurt, did you?”
“Just a slight scratch, that’s all. And two days after I took a transport wagon, and followed up that by taking a big gun.”
“Sir,” said a disagreeable auditor, “I have seen some of the finest specimens of anything you can call to mind, but I wish to state that you are the biggest romancer that ever trod this earth.”
“Oh no, I am not that,” replied the hero; “but I am a photographer!”
THE RETORT JUVENILE
A well-informed miss of fourteen inquired of her brother, “What would you say if you met a German lady and she said, ‘Good morning, God punish England’?”
The boy quickly replied, “I’d say, ‘Don’t you think you’re very Hun-ladylike?’”