This was the same youth who had come to West Point so ignorant that when I asked him, “If a general officer should have a horse shot under him on the field of battle, what ought he to do?” answered up naively and said: “Get up and brush himself.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
This was the same youth who had come to West Point so ignorant that when I asked him, "If a general officer should have a horse shot under him on the field of battle, what ought he to do?" answered up naively and said: "Get up and brush himself."
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5. by Mark Twain
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