NOT MOURNFUL ENOUGH !
The drill instructor of an old English regiment — one of the old stamp of martinet sergeants— who was the terror of every recruit and the remorseless tyrant of the awkward squad, was putting a firing party through the funeral exercise. Having opened the ranks so as to admit of the passage of the supposed cortege between them, the instructor ordered the men to "rest on their arms reversed." Then, by way of practical explanation, he walked slowly down the lane formed by the two ranks, saying as he moved, "Now, lam the corpse ! Pay attention ! " Having reached the end of the party, he turned round, regarding them steadily with a scrutinising eye for a moment or two, and then remarked in a solemn tone of voice : "Your 'ands is right, and your 'cads is right, but you 'aven't that look of regret you ought to 'aye."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5172, 29 November 1884, Page 3
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149NOT MOURNFUL ENOUGH ! Star (Christchurch), Issue 5172, 29 November 1884, Page 3
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