CROSS-EXAMINATIONS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 187, 30 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

CROSS-EXAMINATIONS.

A company of very new soldiers wore out on a wide heath, practising tho art of taking cow. The otl'.uT in charge of them turned to one <jf the rawest of his men. "(let down behind that hillock there," lie ordered, sternly, "and, mind, not a move ur a sound!" A few minutes la tor he looked around to see if they were all concealed, and, to his despair, observed .something wriggling behind the small mound. Mven as he watched the movement'! became more frantic.

"I say. you there! 1 ' he shouted, angrilr, "do you know you are giving our position away to the enemy?" "Yes, sir," said the recruit, in a voice of cool desperation, "and do you know that this is an ant-hill Y"

WHERE THE PATTERNS GO. An assistant in a clothier's shop". on seeing a hoy come up to the counter, paid: "Well my boy, what can 1 get for you?" "Er, farvrr said. 'Would yer give 'hit s( mo patterns of elorfs?" "Certainly, my boy." said the ass'stant. '.What kind of cloths does your father want?" "II don't matter what kind they are: ho only wants to nail the creeper up on the wall." It i> a strange fact that African. never sne.eze, neither do their descendants it' th.'v are pure-blooded, although doiuii ilcil in other parts of the world.