WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
A general was taking his regiment into action. He sent forward a detail of men to make gaps in a rail fence to avoid the heavy loss sure to result if the whole body of men paused to tear it down. The coolest and finest man in the detail was a young soldier who had never been under fire before. When he began pulling down the fence ho fancied he had disturbed a nest oi hornets, as he thought he heard them singing fiercely about his oars. But the lad was not going to run from hornets when there was more serious business ahead. Ignoring the angry insects, he opened tho fenco and rejoined the regiment without being stung. In a day or two ho was surprised to hear that ho was to bo promoted. "But," ho said modestly, "I don't think I deserve promotion over tho others." "My boy," replied the general, " I saw you pull down that fence. You wore tho coolest man under firo I ever saw!" The man gasped, stared, and turned pale. "What!" he exclaimed, regardless of grammar. " Was them -vasns bullets?"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10303, 7 November 1911, Page 3
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