A drill- sergeant of a Volunteer regiment, in drilling a squad, whom lie was instructing in the funeral exercise said :
“Now lads, I want to see how well you can do it. I’m going to walk through the ranks, and I wish \ou to suppose that I am the corpse.” He ordered the squad to rest on their arms reversed, and stand at ease. Then he walked through the ranks, and addressed them as follows “Your arms are all right and your feet arc all right, but there was one i thing wanting, my lads ; you hadn’t | that look of regret on your face that you ought to have when a corpse walks past.”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1983, 9 April 1906, Page 7
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