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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2697, 17 February 1916, Page 4

nine an 3 a tanner. I lost half a quid." Recruiting officers, like other people, experience disappointments. Hero is a true story. Tho other day a remarkably liofty man in tho twenties was outside- the recruiting offices. He was such a likely-looking soldier that the recruiting officer paid him special attention, and talked to him not only about his patriotic duty to serve liis country, but about tho advantages of military life. Tho man seemed to be deeply impressed. "Now, don't you think you would like a military life?" "I would immensely," was the reply. "Won't you join us, then ?" "Not when there's a war on!" It was a hot day. and the sergeant was fat. \ He hod been putting some recruits through it, and, now he was marching them back to their quarters. The recruits chuckled as they started to out-distance their enemy *up tho slope. But they had reckoned without their host. Just as they got to tho top came tho ord?r from behind: "About turn!" and down they had to come. At the bottom: "About turn!" at thp ton: "About turn!" while, cooling his heels, the sergeant sauntered up the slope at hia loisure, nnd It wan the turn of the jokorß to persmre. Tuny never triod it on. tha old man again.