THE BREECHES-MAKER CAPTAIN.

A CAPTAIN in a volunteer corps, drilling his company, had occasion to

desire one of the gentlemen to step farther out in marching. The order

not being attended to, was repeated in a peremptory tone, when the

private exclaimed, "I cannot, captain, _you have made my breeches too

tight_."

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