EITHER WAY:
Joe: "Hey, Bill, would you rather look like a bigger fool
than you are or be a bigger fool than you look?”
Bill: ihafs the difference?”
Joe: "either v/ay would be impossible for you#”
PEDRO was reading the fable about the ant and the grasshopper and when
f ini shed, stated that it might be a true tale in Aesop's ti,rae, but
now-a-days the grasshopper finding himself hungry and broke in mid
winter would block the ant's hat instead of asking it for the help
it didn’t get.
MEDICAL HATTER:
Ignatz: "Uhat *s the difference between ammonia and pneu
monia, 'Matty’ ?”
Matty: ”One comes in bottles, the other in chests."
Sgt. McCall says his outboard motor left without saying "Goodbye" so
now he knows what the "rude" in Evinrude means.
. SCHOOL OF INTERIOR GUARD:
1st Sgt. Miller! "Huber, what isthe color line?"
Mike Huber: "The line between the whites and the blacks."
TAR.GET SEASON soon being with us, the following extract from orders
written or®er a century ago may prove of interest, "then being the happy
days": _ _ _
^ GENERAL ORDERS ~ ‘ X
X Headquarters, Cantonment on the Missouri, April 16, 1806 X
X EXTRACT ‘ X
X Ihe old Guards are to commence firing at a target to- X
X morrow morning under orders of the Old Officer of the Day, X
X and the contractor will issue a pint of good whiskey to the X
X best shot. The lead to be cut out by the worst shot and X
X returned to the Assistant Military Agent by the relieved x
X Offieer of the Day. X
X__ _ _ _Jt
The fish are starting to bite and the Chilkat Navy will soon be in
full strength again on the boson of Portage Cove. Have you overhauled
your tackle yet?
•—George T» Masury.
The gas boat Lois, belonging to the Presbyterian Mission board, was
destroyed by fire recently at Hoonah. Rev. Goerge Beck, operating the boat,
was severely burned.^ and the total loss o-f property amounted to s?10,00Q«
FIRE IN SKAGYJAY: Vihile members of the Post basketball team were lunch
ing sumptuously at the C.P.Kitchen, the fire whistle sounded its raucus
alarm. Volunteer firemen hastily left their dinners and wheeled the hose
truck up the street to the neighborhood of the hospital, where a grass
fire was raging, already having caught on several small out-buildings. The
fire was hastily extinguished so the firemen could return before their
dinners were cold. -—We forgot to -say this was last Wednesday.