Whenever I observe a quartette of commuters at cards I regret that the
hours I gave to mastering whist were not given instead to the study of
Greek.
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"The military salute," says our neighbor on the left, "is a courtesy of
morale when it proceeds from one fighting man to another." This was
impressed in 1918 upon a colored recruit who was hauled up for not
saluting his s. o. His explanation was, "Ah thought you and me had got
so well acquainted Ah didn't have to salute you no mo'."
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