PATLANDER.
Old Lady. "And what regiment are you in?"
The Sub. "7th Blankshires. But I'm attached to the 9th Wessex."
Old Lady. "Really! Now do tell me why the officers get so fond of regiments with aren't their own."
"At Nottingham on Saturday the damages ranging from £7 10s. to £3 were ordered to be paid by a number of miners for absenteeism. It was stated that, although absolved from military obligations by reason of their occupation, there had been glaring neglect of responsibility, some men having lost three ships a week."—Western Morning News.
These mines are very tricky things.