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Show Drill Amenities. Mayor John Purroy Mitchel said at 1 dinner in New York : "The memories of camp life are v very pleasant thing to any soldier. Even, the little vivacities of camp life Seem in the retrospect pleasant enough. "Thus I often laugh ahout a hanker who was being drilled one day at Elnttsburg by a broker-sergeant. "'What'll you give me,' said the broker-sergeant, an old Yale end, 'if I take that hump off your back?' "Til give you,' the hanker answered, an-swered, with a tart laugh, 'something to make your hair grow, sarge.' " |