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post, and received the challenge as usual, Who comes there? Friend with the countersign, was the colonel's reply. Here the poor sentinel was at a loss. The rest of his instructions had been forgotten. The colonel was a very particular man, and insisted that every thing should be done exactly right. So, after spending considerable time in the endeavor to impress the role upon the mind of the sentinel, he suggested that he would act as sentinel while the other should personate the colonel. Blinky --for such was this soldier's surname in the regiment-moved back a few paces and then turned to approach the colonel. Who comes there? challenged the colonel. Why, Blinky; don't you know me, colonel? This was too much for even so patient and forbearing a man as Colonel Howell. As green as verdigris, thought he. The gun was handed over, and the colonel passed on to the next post, meditating upon the vanity of all earthly things in general, and of things military in particular.