“What did you say when you wanted him to stop?”
“Whoa.”
The sergeant turned away and immediately put his squad in motion again. The men advanced a dozen yards or so, when he rasped out:
“Squad, halt! Whoa, Fitzgerald!”
ONE ON SCOTTY
Some friends were in a restaurant the other day discussing the war, when a Scotsman at the next table remarked:
“The Alleys are doing verra weel, ar-ren’t they?”
One, thinking to be smart, said:
“The Alleys! Whom do you mean?”