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No one knew what was happening; no one cared. It was a sheer waste of time. Only Rogers really enjoyed himself. Then suddenly it occurred to Clarke that such a state of affairs was a disgrace to the House. He had just been made a colour-sergeant, and determined to wake things up.
Here his qualities procured for him rapid promotion. He successively and successfully discharged the duties of drill-instructor, pay-sergeant, and other non-commissioned offices, and held the rank of colour-sergeant at the commencement of the Afghan campaign, wherein he repeatedly so greatly distinguished himself. "Macdonald's first engagement with an enemy was at Jagi Thanni.
She has told us that she rides straight and that she doesn't funk her fences; but she has not told us what sort of country she is going to ride over, nor where the fences are, not what Hell-for-leather and Neck-or-nothing means. "We want meaning; we want clearness and precision. We have not been given it yet. "I would let all this pass if Miss Blackadder were not your colour-sergeant.
Once Rogers had said to the House colour-sergeant: "Phillips, form up your men facing right." Phillips looked round at them, thought for a second or two and then drawled: "Look here, you fellows, shove round there." And the subsequent sarcastic comment was quite lost on him. He was a good forward, but not too clever. He was proof against epigram.
But I wonder you came to this regiment to serve with your cousin." "I enlisted, you know, a couple of years before he was gazetted to the corps." "Do they know you took the shilling? that you are now a colour-sergeant in the Royal Picts?" "I don't think they are aware of my existence even." "Well, never mind. Don't be cast down. The time may come when they will be proud to recognise you.
And Crittenden was coming home Colour-Sergeant Crittenden, who had got out of the hospital and back to the trenches just in time to receive flag and chevrons on the very day of the surrender only to fall ill of the fever and go back to the hospital that same day.
A young and sprightly Colour-Sergeant, who had begun to imagine himself a hero, offered his water-bottle to a Highlander whose tongue was black with thirst. "I drink with no cowards," answered the youngster huskily, and, turning to a Goorkha, said, "Hya, Johnny! Drink water got it?" The Goorkha grinned and passed his bottle. The Fore and Aft said no word.
He might know his drill, he might have read his Queen's Regulations, but he had vague ideas of the power of the Press. "You see, Sir," remonstrated his Colour-Sergeant; "if the rear rank think they should stand fast when you give the command 'Open order! it is only a matter of opinion. You may be right, or you may be wrong.
Lieutenant Forbes, a young officer of the 92d heading the advance of his regiment, reached the summit accompanied only by his colour-sergeant. A band of ghazees rushed on the pair and the sergeant fell. As Forbes stood covering his body he was overpowered and slain.
Doubtless one may meet, whether in the New Testament or in Roman and Greek writers, with frequent mention of soldiers, and we make acquaintance with an occasional centurion something socially above a colour-sergeant and below a captain or other officer in various parts of the empire.
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