Sergeant- Maj or Smiled.
Many and various are the tricks that are played on the newly-joined recruit, as the following will show. A company sergeant-major of a certain corps had occasion to visit a barrack-room to which two recruits had recently been posted, and, noticing the absence of one of them, asked the other where his combrade was. The sergeant-majors's astonishment may be imagined when the man replied, " Please, sir, the corporal has sent him down to the tailor's shop to be measured for his sentry-box !"
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Manawatu Herald, 13 December 1894, Page 3
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86Sergeant-Major Smiled. Manawatu Herald, 13 December 1894, Page 3
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