Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — It Was Nothing Extraordinary. [ARTICLE]

It Was Nothing Extraordinary.

One of the stock of ancient legends relating to the Rock of Gibraltar relates how a young Scotch subaltern was on guard duty with a brother officer, when the latter in visiting the sentries fell over a precipice and was killetj. When the survivor was relieved from duty, he made the usual form, "Nothing extraordinary.” And this brought the brigade major dowri upon him in a rage. “What, when your brother officer on duty with you has fallen down a precipice 400 feet high and been killed, you report nothing extraordinary?” “Weel, sir,” replied the Scot, calmly, “I dina think there’s onytliliig extraordinary in it. If he had fallen down four bunder’ feet and not been killed—weel, I should hae ca’d that extrornery.”