There is an incident told of the Revolutionary War, about an officer who ordered his men to cut down some trees which were needed to make a bridge. There were not nearly enoubh men, and work was going very slowly. Up rode a commanding-looking man and spoke to the officer in charge, who was urging his men but doing nothing himself. "You haven't enough men for the job, have you?"
"No, sir. We need some help."
"Why don't you lend a hand yourself?" asked the man on horseback.
"Me, sir? Why, I am a corporal," replied the officer, looking rather affronted at the suggestion.
"Ah, true," quietly replied the other, and getting off his horse he labored with the men until the job was done. Then he mounted again, and as he rode off he said to the officer,
"Corporal, the next time you have a job to put through and too few men to do it you had better send for the Commander-In-Chief, and I will come again."
It was George Washington.
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