Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — From a Menagerie. [ARTICLE]

From a Menagerie.

A noncommissioned officer was reading the names of a number of recruits. -“Your name!” he snapped to the first. “Fox.” “Next!” “Bear,” was the reply. The seargeant sniffed, and glared at the third. “Wolf,” said the recruit, and his interrogator gave him a sharp look. ' “And what do you call yourself?” he asked a tall youth. “Lyon,” the recruit responded, whereat the noncom threw down his pen and shouted with good-natured laughter. “Go and order some cages to be built 1” he roared to a private, “We’ve been recruiting.from a menagerie!”