Very Severe.
Jean Paul Kichter i>bserved that if a lady officer wanted t> give the word ' Halt' she would d" it in the following strain: — "You soldier--, oil of yon, now mind what I say, I ord r you a soon as 1 have mmc speaking-, to stand "till, everyone ot you, on the spot where you happen mbe Do. 'r. you hear me? Halt! I say all of you." Upon this a strong- minded wninan in an imenc:-m paper, makes trie following comment : —'* Now, Monsieur Jean, it v.- as on an unlucky ilav on which you wrote that feittenee. May you ueve hear anything but that little concise word, ' No,' fr<-m every I>air of rosy tins yon meet. May you bait wifeless through life. May your buttons be snappish, your strii.gs knotty, and your stocking-? full ol holes. May your bootjnek b-> missing, your feet corny and your t-havin-j water cold, your razor Cull, your baitstand up, your collar lie down. May your beard be porcupiny, your whiskers thinly settle!, and yonr moustaches curl the wrong way. May your coffee bo muddy, your toast smoky, and your tea ua.er bewitche i. ami with a never-dying desire for affection, may you crawl through creation a meek, miserable, nasty, forleTti, fidgety, fussy, nd:culous. ru.iin.-d, d-jected 010 bachelor.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 53, 6 October 1883, Page 3
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216Very Severe. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 53, 6 October 1883, Page 3
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