Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — Fooling the Colonel. [ARTICLE]

Fooling the Colonel.

I doubt If the pranks of tlte present day subaltern are as pluckish as those of his predecessors. I can remember a

story that went the rounds some years ago of a daring Junior of the Grenadier guards who chaffed his colonel In a fashion that would not be tolerated to-day. But the colonel was not disposed to deal leniently with him. He kept unusually late, or rather early, houw, so one day an early parade was ordered unexpectedly, and five minutes before the hour the colonel rode past the culprit’s quarters. Cheerfully unconscious of Impending doom, the latter leaned out of his bedroom window in the airy garments of sleep to say good-morning. The colonel chuckled and rode on, but to his surprise at the stroke of time the subaltern stepped out on parade fully dressed and all in order. He knew of the trap and had donned the looser garment over his unifortn to take a rise out of his superior.