Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — They Presented Arms. [ARTICLE]

They Presented Arms.

Two very charming young ladies were chatting in a tramcar the other evening. “So you’ve been down to the camp?” said one. “Yes; and it’s splendid down there.” “Did the soldiers have their arms with them?” “Og course they did! You don’t suppose they would leave them at home, do you?" “I shouldn’t like to be there when they were firing. I hate firing.” “Why, silly, they don’t fire.” “Don’t they? What do they do with their arms, then?” “Why, they put them round you, of course, and it’s ever so nice.”