HIS ORDERS OBEYED.
The customs of military service require officers to visit the kitchens during cooking hours to see that the soldiers’ food is properly prepared. One old colonel who let it be pretty generally known that his orders must be obeyed without question or examination, once stopped two soldiers who were carrying a squp kettle out of a kitchen. "Here, you,” he growled, "give me a taste of that.” One of the soldiers ran and fetched a ladle, and gave the colonel the required taste. The colonel spat and spluttered. “Good heavens, man! You don’t call that stuff soup, do you?” “No, sir,” replied the soldier meekly, “it’s dish water that we was emptyin’, sir.” KINDNESS. “Is your father kind to animals. Tommy?” “Oil, yes, miss; ’e said ’e’d like to kill the man who scratches horses.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 9
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138HIS ORDERS OBEYED. Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 9
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