QUITE SAFE.
The following is perhaps the cleverest excuse for neglect of duty on record. An Irish soldier, placed on guard over a cannon, was found in a publichouse some distance off by his officer. ‘ How dare you leave your post P’ was the stern rebuke. ‘ Ah, but it’s no consequence at all at all, plaze yer honor,’ said the man.; ‘ There’s no two men, yer honour,' would lift that gun between them, much less carry it off. An’ if there was more than two, I know I wouldn’t be a match for them, so I kem away, yer honour!’
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 10
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100QUITE SAFE. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 10
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