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The Khaki Boys had been keyed up to such a high pitch through the battle, the attack on the hill, the subsequent shelling of it, and their own dangerous position after the collapse of the building, that now their rescue hardly seemed real. "Say, I'm about all in!" exclaimed Bob, as he sank down on the grass. "Same here," agreed Jimmy, staggering to a seat.
Furthermore, his trousers were of khaki, his shirt of navy blue, his belt three inches broad, his neckerchief of red, and his hat both wide and high. In response to enthusiastic greetings, he struck a pose. "How do you like it?" he inquired. "Isn't this the candy make-up for the simple life surveyor, hardy prospector, mountain climber, sturdy pedestrian?
The monstrous stone image of Britannia was lying prone and face downward on the garden path; and there stuck out at random from underneath it, like the legs of a smashed fly, an arm clad in a white shirt sleeve and a leg clad in a khaki trouser, and hair of the unmistakable sandy gray that belonged to Horne Fisher's unfortunate uncle.
"Go on, Khaki! go on! two to one on the fat girl; two to one I lay the fie-ald."
As he pulled up short on the edge of the dip a sob broke from him almost a cry. Below him a couple of men in khaki were measuring the hollow with a field-tape; while a third an officer stood almost midway between them pencilling notes in a book. The tape stretched clean across the potato-patch. "Right!" announced the officer, not perceiving Nicky, whose shadow, of course, lay behind on the path.
The driver was a colored youth in a khaki shirt and an overseas cap, and his wagon was a horseless affair, huge and covered. The colored man, halting his truck to let a cross current of vehicles pass, dazzled Johnnie with a good-natured smile. Johnnie grinned back. "You goin' up Broadway?" he asked, with a jerk of his head toward the north.
I patronize the library and see what is in the stores. My money will buy just as much as any man's, if I do wear khaki trousers. Kindly notice the word. Save in deference to your ladyship I probably would have said pants. You see how ELITE I can be if I try. And it not only extends to my wardrobe, to a 'yaller' and green dining-room, but it takes in the 'chany' as well. I have looked up that, too.
The jackies having shore leave were most picturesque, and, alas, hot as well, in their blue flannel suits, with the round sailor cap set at a jaunty angle on their heads; while the Signal Corps soldiers and hospital men in fresh khaki, the officers in crisp duck, and the women freshly starched and ironed, gave a holiday aspect even beyond that of the fluttering flags aloft, as the ship had been dressed both on Chrismas Day and New Year's, although the work had gone on with unabated energy.
The place was shaped like a modern prison, having tiers of gallery round an open space, and in the air was the smell of viands and the clatter of plates and the music of a band. Men in khaki everywhere, and Noel glanced from form to form to see if by chance one might be that which represented, for her, Life and the British Army.
From early dawn until the setting summer sun has cast long shadows over meadow and stream alike, there is a moving mass of restless people, either mounted on horseback, in vehicles or on foot, going out or coming in from the trails and side excursions. The walker seemed to get the most fun out of life. Man and woman are alike khaki clad and sunburned to a berry-brown.
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