Jack. "I s'pose 'cos it's a neutral tint!"

[But the other didn't laugh. He intended making that witticism himself.


SCENE ON BOARD H.M.S.——

"I say, why am I like the Queen's chief cook? Do you give it up?"

"Yes."

"Because I am in a high cool-and-airy (culinary) position."

[Astonished cadet nearly falls from the yard.