The Three Advices/Important Promotion
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IMPORTANT PROMOTION.
A old woman who had a son in a regiment of Fencibles, then serving in Ireland, received a letter from the young man informing her that he had been promoted, and now held the rank of corporal. The old woman was much pleased with her son’s good fortune, and sallied forth to communicate the good news to her friends. She called on a neighbour woman and told her that Jamie had been made an Admiral. “An admiral!” said Janet, “I thought your son was in the army, an Admiral sails on the sea,” “At weel,” said the mother, “I’m no vera sure o’ the name but it’s either an admiral a general or a corporal; it’s some o’ the rals at ony rate.”