—— WHERE LANGUAGE FAILS. ——
Reading edition
Remember along about examination time how you used to think Hades would be a good place for the professor?
Two Williams College graduates have had the pleasure of meeting their old French teacher in the nearest earthly approach to the Inferno—the trenches.
Officers now, the ex-students finally readied the battalion commander's post in a certain sector after a two-mile trudge from the rear through mud and ice water up to their hips.
A French interpreter met them at the door of the post.
"Yes, the major is in," he said, "but he won't see you till you shake hands with me."
Both officers thought they were face to face with a nut. Then, as they recognized their old teacher, two hands shot and grasped both of his.
"Well, I'll be darned—you haven't changed a bit!" was all the French they could remember.