Give Up?

[marval]

A soldier, who was habitually drunk, publicly announced to all the men in his company and surrounding companies that he was swearing off drinking and that all the other soldiers should give up this foul habit also.

The other soldiers would tease him to fall off the wagon by giving him whiskey and get him drunk. Every morning he would be back preaching about the sins of alcohol.

One day his friend told him he ought to give up preaching about the evils of the jug as he always ends up drunk.

With a twinkle in his blood shot eyes he said, "What, and give up all that free whiskey?"