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The skirmishers of the Royal Picts advanced quickly within range, and opened fire the first shots these upon Russian soil and some of them took effect. The carts were abandoned, and speedily changed masters. "We shall want those carts," said old Hyde, abruptly, to his friend the sergeant-major. They had watched this little episode together. "Yes, I suppose they will come in useful."
As soon as the captain had gone, Reimers put his helmet on the table, and drew off his gloves. He glanced round the orderly-room and nodded with satisfaction as he noted that everything was as it used to be. Then he held out his hand to the sergeant-major. "Good-day, Schumann!" he said cheerily. "You're still here? How are you?" "I'm well, sir, thank God. And, beg pardon, sir, but how are you?"
I know now that he is something like an archdeacon, a man of enormous importance whose duties it is a little difficult to define exactly. He expected me. With the help of the sergeant-major he had found a servant for me and assigned a hut to me. For the servant I have nothing but praise. He could and did darn socks well.
They'd have a competition to see who could have the most. And their husbands would all be big, hearty men. Margaret would marry a blacksmith, and Bridget 'ud marry a fisherman, and Rachel 'ud marry a farmer, and Mary'd marry a soldier and the other one would marry a sailor. Mary's man 'ud be a sergeant-major, a fat sergeant-major, and the other one's 'ud be a boatswain or a chief gunner.
Then he laid down the receiver with a happy sigh, and crawled out of the dug-out on to the duck-board. "Now we'll have a look round the sentries, Sergeant-Major," he said. But the pair had hardly rounded three traverses when Bobby was haled back to the Signal Station. "Why did you leave the telephone just now?" inquired a cold voice. "I was going to visit my sentries, sir."
Meanwhile, a superb sergeant-major of the National Guard, newly equipped, a big, full-blooded fellow, with a red beard, the husband of a fashionable dressmaker, who every evening at the beer-house, after his sixth glass of beer would show, with matches, an infallible plan for blocking Paris and crushing the Prussian army like pepper, and was foolish enough to insist upon it.
Sergeant-Major George Eades, a Canadian pioneer, drooped the colours with a flag that could not have measured more than a foot square; but his Majesty took the salute and answered it. Besides the amusements already mentioned, dances were held frequently and thoroughly enjoyed.
This generally takes the form of parades every other hour, when the officers prattle amiably of matters to which you have long been a stranger, and the Sergeant-Major takes the opportunity of preventing his vocabulary from falling into disuse. Also, if you are in the artillery, you clean your harness and polish up the steel-work thereon till it twinkles like a heliograph in the sun.
The prince you understand that what follows took place in the presence of the sergeant-major, and a corporal the prince rated Kolpakoff soundly, and threatened to have him flogged. Well, Kolpakoff went back to the barracks, lay down on a camp bedstead, and in a quarter of an hour was dead: you quite understand? It was, as I said, a strange, almost impossible, affair.
I had dinner at Potijze. Things were quite peaceful at that time; we stood outside after dinner and admired the view in the Salient. Just a few shells were flying over. At 11 p.m. Captain Andrews, Dickinson and I, with Sergeant-Major Preston and a few runners, left Potijze and returned to the dug-outs in the Ramparts. There is more room to move about here!"
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