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A little snap ple ease!" The last word in a sharply rising inflection, tightening up the spring again for the explosive "Ye-a-ou-w yun!" Without warning came the commands, repeating "As you were!" "Attention!" He walked up and down before the rigid line, looking them over and remarking casually, "Might be a little worse," adding as an afterthought, "per-haps!"
Now he's going to move them off. Watch and listen!" "Ye-a-ou-w!" came the long-drawn cry, fiercely threatening, representing in English speech the word "squad." Then followed an expletive, "Yun!" which for explosive quality made a rifle crack seem a drawl, and which appeared to release in the men a hidden spring drawn to its utmost tension.
The men "stood at ease," and then "stood easy." "Now, then," said the major, "we'll steal in on him, if we can." They moved forward toward the little sergeant major, who remained studying the opposite horizon in calm abstraction until their toes had reached a certain line, when, like the crack of a whip, there came once more the long-drawn cry with its explosive termination: "Ye-a-ou-w!
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