Regimental Sergeant-Major (to lady driver of motor ambulance). "I SEE YOU'VE GOT STRIPES. HAVE YOU GOT A SERGEANT-MAJOR?"
Corporal Maud Evans. "HAVE WE GOT A SERGEANT-MAJOR? I SHOULD THINK WE HAVE—THE CAT!"
"By fixing five potatoless days hope is entertained that supplies, which are scent, will be left to poor people who most require them."—Daily Chronicle.
This explains the remark of the Irishman who protested that it was weeks since he had tasted even "the smell of a potato."
"It will take years to cleanse the Ægean stables."—Civil and Military Gazette.
Still, M. VENEZELOS has made a good beginning with Samos, Lemnos and several other 'osses.