AN old lady living in the country had a son in the Navy. On one of her rare visits to a neighbouring town she saw a sailor. Trembling with excitement she asked him if he knew her boy. She told him his name.
"Well what ship is he in?" asked the sailor.
"What ship?" exclaimed the old lady. "Are there two?"
Sometime "Do you ever work?" asked the judge. "Oh, now and then, replied the hobo. "What do you do?"
"Oh, this and that."
"Oh, here and there."
"Throw him in the cooler," said the judge. "Hey," wailed the hobo, "when will I get out?"
"Oh, sooner or later," answered the judge.
Rebuffed lr was a beastly day. The recruits were dumb; Pte. Smith was the dumbest of them all.
The sergeant strode up to him. "What was your job in civil life?" he barked. replied Smith.
^I suppose," sneered the sergeant, trying to be funny, "you dusted the desks and washed out the inkwells, and made cups of tea for the "Oh, no," replied Smith. "We kept an old sergeant for those jobs."
Not His Job As he was drilling a batch of recruits the sergeant saw that one of them was marching out of step.
Going up to the man as they marched, he said sarcastically "Do you know they are all out of step except you?"
hat?" asked the recruit innocently.
said they are all out of step except you," repeated the sergeant.
"Well," was the retort, "you tell em. You're in charge.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.