SKIRMISHING.
A distinguished officer, ifc is said, did not get dn very well with hia chaplain in Zoluland, and one occasion fell into a little Conversation with him in which he did not come off best. " When ara you going to leave as, Mr X. f asked the general. " Oh* about the same time that you do yourself, I suppose !" meekly answered the parson. "I don't..: know so much about that," said, the General; " for I waut your tent, and/i' can't spare your rations- much longer." " Ah, but I want my tent myself* though I don't spare rations !" "Yes • but you know this is the 'flying columD,' and it can't be expected to fly with a lot of parsons hanging dn to it." " Well; General, all I can say is that, if you call seven miles and.a half a flying, I think I shall be able to keefjP up with you." » That's all very. well*',' said the General, a little nettledj "but I hear that there's a Roman Catholic chaplain about to join us, and if he ddes> I declare I'll put him in your;
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Kumara Times, Issue 1333, 8 January 1881, Page 2
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185SKIRMISHING. Kumara Times, Issue 1333, 8 January 1881, Page 2
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