“Oh, but I belong to the M. B. B.,” said the victim.
“M. B. B.? What’s that, sir?”
“The Mind My Own Business Brigade,” replied the other, resuming his reading of the paper.
WHY THEY THREW HIM IN AGAIN
A dentist in an English east-coast town was one day standing on the pier watching the evolutions of some warships, when he accidentally toppled into the water. Three recruits who were standing by immediately plunged in to the rescue and hauled him out.
On recovering his breath, he looked admiringly at his brave rescuers, and in a voice filled with deep gratitude he said:
“My brave fellows, how can I ever repay you for your gallantry? Just come along to my consulting rooms, and I’ll draw all the bloomin’ teeth out of your heads, and not charge you a penny.”
NOTHING TO FUSS ABOUT
At a “certain place in France” where the British and German trenches are within shouting distance of each other, the German soldiers were loudly singing one of their favorite war songs, “Gott mit uns! Gott mit uns!”