Another was told to be a machinist, and received his tools.

He seated himself at his bench, watched his neighbor at work, and commenced with little delay.

Another became a glass-blower, another a lapidary, another a musician, and so on through all the trades.
I have heard that an Ohio colonel in our late war had a fondness for never being outdone by rivals.

One day his chaplain told him that a work of grace was going on in the army.

"Fifteen men," said he, "were baptized last Sunday in Colonel Blank's regiment, and the reformation is still going on." Without replying the colonel called his adjutant.
"Captain," was the command, "detail twenty men for baptism at once.