People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — At the Barracks. [ARTICLE]

At the Barracks.

The colonel, on his tour of inspeotion, unexpectedly entered the drillroom, where he came upon a couple of soldiers, one of whom was reading a letter aloud while the ether was listening, and, at the same time, stopping up the ears of the reader. “What are you doing there?” the punsled officer inquired of the latter. “You see, colonel, I am reading to Piton, who can’t read himself, • letter from his sweetheart.” “And you, Pitou?” “Please, colonel, I am stopping up Boquillon’s ears with both hands, because I don’t mind his reading my sweetheart’s letter, but I don’t want him to know what she writes.”— La Famille.