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Keppel so far had made no signal for the line of battle, nor did he now. Recognising from the four days' chase that his enemy was avoiding action, he judged correctly that he should force it, even at some risk. It was not the time for a drill-master, nor a parade.
Bob, who had been a year in a military school, was drill-master for the recruits, and very gravely he performed his duties and put them through the skirmishers' drill advancing in rushes, throwing themselves in the new grass, and very gravely he commended one enthusiast none other than the Hon.
The thought of the day in store for us sent me strutting as though I had been in the presence of my drill-master. Mrs. Waddy, however, grew extremely melancholy at the mention of it. 'Lord only knows where we shall all be by that time! she sighed. 'She is a dewy woman, said my father, disdainfully They appeared always to be at variance, notwithstanding her absolute devotion to him.
Rodney didn't want to say so out loud, of course, for he was the drill-master; but it was not long before he discovered that the Rangers knew whom to thank for their proficiency, and that they fully appreciated the patient and untiring efforts he had made to bring them into military form.
Profitting by the experience of his predecessors, Wayne insisted that campaigning should begin only after the troops were thoroughly prepared; and no drill-master ever worked harder to get his charges into condition for action.
They have a library of about two hundred volumes in each family, exclusive of strictly religious books; and almost all the younger people can read music, one of the members being a thorough teacher and good musical drill-master. They read the Bible a good deal, and sometimes pray aloud in their meetings.
"Mr Hasnip!" came from the other end of the great room. Mr Hasnip looked up. "The drill-master is here. The horse has arrived for Burr junior's riding lesson. Can you excuse him?"
A certain handy and correct young fellow, Rentsel by name, about seventeen, who already knew his fugling to a hair's-breadth, was Drill-master; and exercised them all, Fritz especially, with due strictness; till, in the course of time and of attainments, Fritz could himself take the head charge.
In this operation the troops had averaged from seventy to eighty miles in twenty-six hours without change of horses. To such a point had the slow-moving ponderous British Army attained after two years' training of that stern drill-master, necessity. The operations had attained some success, but nothing commensurate with the daring of the plan or the exertions of the soldiers.
"'I was first sergeant and drill-master, said Kearny, 'in the Chilean army for one year. And captain of artillery for another. "'What became of your command? I asked. "'Shot down to a man, said Kearny, 'during the revolutions against Balmaceda. "Somehow the misfortunes of the evil-starred one seemed to turn to me their comedy side.
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