Another Win.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 48, 26 September 1913, Page 3

Another Win.

The colonel remonstrated with i his subaltern time after time, but 1 all in vain. The latter, in fact, ! was a born, incurable gambler. 3 One day, however, just about > the time when lie was transferred '- from one regiment to another, his I old colonel happened to meet the -■ 1 new one, and gave the latter a y word of warning. The second colonel was, there1. fore, put on lib; guard ; and ret solved by way of teaching him a p lesson, to t ike a rise out of his s new subordinate, s Only two days after he had joined the regiment, tho young l- officer accused his new colonel of h suffering from corns. II “ My dear fellow, I’ve never o i had a corn in my life, ” came the d reply. g ” I’ll bet you five pounds you’ve n got three oil each foot now, ” re- )- plied tho subordinate, s “Done, ” said the colonel. Then e as the only way of settling the n dispute, lie took of his boots and it submitted his feet forexarni iar tion. No corns could he found; T and the colonel pocketed his e, “fiver ” cheerfully. ;o Hence, when the two colonels n met again a day later, he told l- the young officer’s old commang, der all about what had happened d “ Good heavens ! ” exclaimed the valiant warrior. “ And he :h bet me twenty pounds that he’d ie see your feet bare before he ig had been in your regiment a week. ”

The work of driving the piles to carry the eastern approach t 11 ' bridge having been entrusted to Mr G. M. Fraser, operation: will be started at once.