The Archive · 1938

Impossible Premise

Two old settlers, both bachelors, were si! in a cabin in the backwoods. The conversation finally drifted around to cooking. Said one: 3 "I got me a cookery book once, but all the recipes were impossible. Every blessed one. o' them began with: Take a clean dish?"

Regulations A mEcRUIT, who was smoking a cigarette, walked past a general without saluting. The general called him. back.

"Are you not aware that you should always salute an officer?" he asked.

"Yes, sir," replied the recruit, "but the. sergeant told me never to salute with a cigarette in my mouth."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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