WANTED TO GET THERE HIMSELF.
At the beginning of the American oivil war, before years of hardship had stiffened the Northern men and made them the world's besfc troops, a Federal General, seeing a private in a hole in the gionnd, ordered him at once to join fche fighting line. " No, General," replied the man, who apparently knew his superior, " you want to get here yourself." This, it ia suggested, is about the typo of discipline which seems to have been displayed by our earliest ievies.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 50, 25 September 1900, Page 4
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86WANTED TO GET THERE HIMSELF. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 50, 25 September 1900, Page 4
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