A Witty Sentinel — 188
A lieutenant of the 10th United States Infantry recently met with a sad rebuff at Fort Kearney. The lieutenant was promenading in full uniform one day, and approached a volunteer on sentry, who challenged him with “Halt! who comes there?” The lieutenant, with contempt in every lineament of his face, expressed his feeling with an indignant “Ass!” The sentry’s reply, apt and quick, came: “Advance, Ass, and give the countersign.”