Svejk´s Budejovice Anabasis

 

‘Excellent. And you didn´t happen to ask them for  example how many men there would be in a regiment and how they were distributed?’

‘No, I didn´t ask that because I knew it by heart ages ago.’

‘And so you´re perfectly informed about the composition of our army?’

‘Of course, sargeant.’

And the sargeant now played his last Trump, looking around triumphantly at his gendarmes:

‘Do you speak Russian?’