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Updated: May 10, 2025
Whereupon for the safety of democracy a half-ounce of hair was scraped dry from the cheeks of three Italians and one Pole. Outside the world of the company there appeared, from time to time, the colonel, a heavy man with snarling teeth, who circumnavigated the battalion drill-field upon a handsome black horse. He was a West Pointer, and, mimetically, a gentleman.
Instead, he thumbed his Bible in search of passages that justified the use of force. One day, before the regiment sailed for France, when York's company was leaving the drill-field, Capt. Danford sent for him. Together they went over many passages of the Bible which both had found. "If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight." They were together several hours.
She might have let him alone after she had given him that thrust, and gone on to her house, and said good-bye in the usual way. But just as he was helping me down it happened that Juliana and Dr. Mc-Curdy appeared through the rear sally-port, which they must have reached by skirting the wall instead of crossing the drill-field. As soon as Mrs.
Across the long drill-ground the regiment it was Rivers's regiment stood, a solid mass of silent, living statues, and it was a brave sight that came now that flash of sabres along the long length of the drill-field, like one leaping horizontal flame.
It was astonishing what a difference was made by two or three weeks' training. The mere thorough performance of guard and police duties helped the men very rapidly to become soldiers. The officers studied hard, and both officers and men worked hard in the drill-field. It was, of course, rough and ready drill; but it was very efficient, and it was suited to the men who made up the regiment.
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