His Idea of the Extraordinary.
A Scotch subaltern at Gibraltar was one day on guard with another rv'JSoer, who unluckily fell down a prsciyice 400 feet and was killed. Noa military readers should understand mat in the guard reports there is a small addendum, viz.: "N. B.—Nothing extraordinary sincß guard mounting." "Out friend, however, said nothing about the aocident, and some hours after, the brigade major came to his quarters on the part of the officet commanding, with the reports in his hand, to demand an explanation. " You say " N. Bi —Nothing extraordinary since guard mount-, ing," when your brother officer on duty hag fallen down a precipice 400 feet and been killed." "Weel, sir," replied he, "I dinna; think ther's onything extraordinary in that; if he'd faun doon a precipice 400 feet and nc i been killed, I should hae thought it very ex i traoxdinary indeed, and wad hae nut it doQi i In nw Renor*,"— Qo,riiff Mail, ~ J
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1372, 13 August 1895, Page 7
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161His Idea of the Extraordinary. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1372, 13 August 1895, Page 7
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