NOT TO BE OUTDONE.
On the train the other day, a private sat with his tunic unbuttoned, for the temperature was high. A sergeant strode up to him and said: “Button up that tdnic! Did you never hear of by-law 217, subsection D? Pm Sergeant Jabez Win.-, terbottora!” A gentleman in the seat behind tapped the sergeant sternly on the shoulder. “How dare you issue orders with a pipe in your mouth?” .he asked. “Go home and read paragraph 174, section M., part IX. ■ I ain Major Eustace Carroll.” . Here a gentleman with a drooping white moustache interposed from the other side of the aisle: — “If Major Carroll,” he said,' coldly, “will consult by-law 31 of section K, he will learn that' to reprimand a sergeant in the presence of a private is an offence not lightly to be overlooked.” •"
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1763, 13 December 1917, Page 4
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140NOT TO BE OUTDONE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1763, 13 December 1917, Page 4
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