Archive for October 2008

A LIEUTENANT.–

A LIEUTENANT was promenading in full uniform one day, and approaching a volunteer on sentry, who challenged him with, “Halt! Who comes there?” The Lieutenant, with contempt in every lineament of his face, expressed his ire with an indignant, “Ass!” The sentry’s reply, apt and quick came, “Advance, ass, and give the countersign.”