NOT AN EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.
A Scotch colonel tolls the following story in his reminiscences i —A young subaltern of his own nationality was one day on guard with another officer of Gibraltar, when the latter fell over the rook and was killed. The Subaltern, however, made no mention of the accident in his guard report, but left the addendum “Nothing extraordinary since guard mounting” standing without qualification. Some hours afterwards the brigade, came to demand explanations. “You say, sir,';in yotr report, ‘Nothing ettrardlnary since Iguatd mounting,’ when your own fellow-officer has fallen down a rocky precipice 4doft deep, and has bee r killed 1” “ Well, general,” replied Lieu tenant Sandy, slowly: “I dinna think there’s anything extraordinary in that. If he had fallen noon a precipice 400 ft dec p and not been killed I should ha’ thocht it extraordinary, and put it doon in m&., reepoort.”
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Evening Star, Issue 11451, 19 January 1901, Page 2
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