YE »*COOTIE” ICOLTBaN
Stand up, so you can be seen* Speak up, so that you will be
heard. Shut up, so that you will be liked. yVJ
Let your aim be good in this world. Then you will miss fire t
in the next. \
• * Don’t sulk; either forget or fight. When you think little of S
a person, say as little as you think* i
Don’t expect to get rich letting other people attend to your *|
.* business, while you are attending to other people’s business.
A DRY RUN.
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On the wild plane of the Target Range there is an animal
known as'the Dry Run, in fact there are two such animals, one
called the Service Rifle Dry Run and the other the Automatic
Dry Run. They feed upon Goat. The Automatic Dry Run being the
more ferocious of the two will spring upon the firer’s goat and
devour the poor animal with must gusto. It also provokes the firer
to silent curse-words.
These animals serve as an example for the soldier not to fol
low. Don’t be a Dry Run. If you are given a task to do, do it.
If you do just enough to get by, you are a Dry Run.
The Service Rifle Dr$ Run is a necessary evil like the Bugler,
for instance. The Automatic Dry Run is a larger evil, like the
Guard-House Lawyer. If you have to be a Dry Run be a Service Rif
le Dry Run.
There is a little card that came to hand from a Seattle mer
chant, which if you will paste in your hat and endeavor to follow
you will never become a Dry Run. Make this your motto:
Plan on more than you can doi
Then do it.
Bite off more than you can chew,
Then chew it. ^
Hitch your wagon to a star, H
* Keep your seat and there you are,
Hop to it. i
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The bright young man was making application for his bonus.
”How much service did you have?” asked the clerk,
”No service at all,” replied the b.y.m. in disgust. "I?was
only a cotporal and had to wait on myself,” </’*
The young man was talking to the recruiting officer.
’’Your pay to start with will be $21.00,”
"Will I have a chance to rise?”
"Certainly. Reveille goes at 5;00 every morning.”
Irate Drill Sergeant (to dumbell)-"Brown,did you ever drive
a donkey back on the farm."
Brown--”Yes, sir,’”
”What did you .say to him when you wanted him to go ahead?”
Brown--”Get up,1”
"All right. Squad, forward march.’ Brown, get up.’”