AN EASY SOLUTION

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 38

AN EASY SOLUTION

There is usually more than one way to get out of- a' 'difficulty. Not every individual, however, is as ingenious in solution as the corporal of a famous Irish regiment. The incident is told in the ' Red Letter.' While on a march in India the pioneer corporal went to the quartermaster to borrow a camel to carry a spare tent. The quartermaster refused. 1 I have only the cart, and this spare camel. l am keeping for a case of emergency.' ' Well,' said the corporal, ' can't you put the case of emergency on the cart, sir, and let me have the camel ? ' — ' v