An army examiner once had a very stupid candidate before him,
who apparently was unable to answer the simplest question. At
last the examiner lost his temper, and with sarcastic emphasis,
quite lost on the youth before him, queried.
“Suppose, sir, that you were a captain in command of a company
of infantry; that in your rear was an unpassable abyss; that on
either side of you towered perpendicular rocks of untraversable
height; that before you stood the enemy, one hundred men to each
one of yours; what, sir, would you do in this emergency?”
“General,” said the aspirant to military honors, “I should
resign.”--_Tit-Bits._
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