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OUR VOLUNTARY ARMY.
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EASTER MANOEUVRES.

Adjutant. "Your orders are, that when you are attacked, Captain Slasher, you are to fall back slowly."

Capt. Slasher. "In which direction am I to retire, Sir?"

Adjutant. "Well, the proper way, of course, would be over that hill, but―they intend to have Lunch behind that Farmhouse in the Valley.

CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER TOO.

"Haldane Terrier" (a little late for parade). "I wonder what the deuce they want to bother me about now?"

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