Recruiting Sergeant—“Good heavens, man! Aren’t you doing anything for your country?”
Farmer—“In coorse I am. I sends two eggs every week to the wounded soldiers at the horspital.”
WELCOME PRISONERS
A captain of Hussars gave a dinner to the men of his squadron the night before they left for the front.
“Now, my lads,” he said, “treat this dinner as you will the enemy.”
And they set to with a will.
After dinner he discovered one of the men stowing away bottles of champagne into a bag, and, highly indignant, he demanded to know what he meant by such conduct.
“I’m only obeying orders, sir,” said the man.
“Obeying orders!” roared the captain; “what do you mean, sir?”