h-h-halt

Updated: May 13, 2025

"They made him sergeant of a company, but had to reduce him to the ranks, because when he was drilling the boys one day they all marched into the river and got drowned before he could say h-h-halt." The doctor laughed and the others joined him out of courtesy, for the story was worn threadbare in the bar-room. "Tell about his going on picket duty," suggested some one.

Charles Frederic Goss - The Redemption of David Corson