“Tommy Atkins” pleaded exemption from church parade on the ground
that he was an agnostic. The sergeant-major assumed an expression of
innocent interest.
“Don’t you believe in the Ten Commandments?” he mildly asked the bold
freethinker.
“Not one, sir,” was the reply.
“What! Not the rule about keeping the Sabbath?”
“No, sir.”
“Ah, well, you’re the very man I’ve been looking for to scrub out the
canteen.”