Irritable Plus 4 (whose opponent is standing too close behind him). "Now then, Sir, what are you supposed to be doing there?"
Mild 18. "Only getting ready to clap."
From an account of a football match by "Brigadier" in The Daily Record:—
"Cresswell sustained an injury, and took no risks, but R. M. Morton would have risked going at a battalion of dragoons with bayonets drawn."
There must be moments in these peaceful journalistic days of his retirement when that grand old soldier, "Brigadier," wishes he were once more charging at the head of his dragoons, with a drawn bayonet in his hand.