HE WOULD SALUTE
BAYONET EXERCISE FOR A GENERAL. The recruit'was having-his first, turn on sentry duty. ' "Now, remember your salute," the corporal warned him. "If you see a lieutenant wearing one star, slope arms. For a captain with three stars slope arms also. The major has a crown on his straps, and you ■ present arms. For the colonel, who has stars and a crown, you -present arms and then turn out the guard." "When lie was left alone the recruit wont .over these orders again and again. Suddenly his musing was interrupted l>y the approach of an officer. This was a general, and the recruit did not know, what to do for him. f
"An' what might you be?" he asked bluntly, unable to recognise the badge of 'the officer's rank.
"I'm the general," replied tho officer, affably.
"Are y'?" exclaimed the recruit in consternation. "Then ye'U want something big. How'd it do if I give ye a bayonet exercise?"
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 5
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160HE WOULD SALUTE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 5
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