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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2, 1930)

Suspicious!

Suspicious!

A certain officer was being court-martialed for absenting himself from first parade and with having been intoxicated the night before.

He made strenuous efforts to prove that he was sober, and his batman, called as a witness, tried loyally to back him up.

“Was Lieutenant Smith quite normal when he returned to his quarters last night?” he was asked.

“Yessir!”

“Did he give you the usual instructions to wake him for parade?”

“Yessir! He said: ‘Be sure and call me early.’”

“Did he give you any particular reason for that?”

“Well, he said, because—because he was to be Queen of the May!”

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