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Show It Wasn't His Fault. . As a sergeant was bawling out his orders in a barracks In Dublin and watching the line of feet aa the new recruits endeavored to obey the word of command, he found to his astonish- -ment that one pair of feet, more no- " tlceable on account of their extra large size, never turned. Without taking his eyes off those 1 feet, the sergenat bawled out a second order: "About face." He could see that all the feet except those he watched turned In obedience. Rushing up to the owner, a little fellow, fel-low, he seized him by the shoulder, shouting: "Why don't you turn with the restr "I did," replied the trembling recruit. "You did. eh? Well. I watched your feet and they never moved." "It's the boots they gave me, sir," said the poor fellow. "They're so large that when I turn my feet turns Inside In-side of them." Dublin News. |