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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I 've changed allegiance, that's all, Broussard. It's money which makes the mare go with all of us, eh? The Captain turned me loose last night." "You wif us? You go volunter?" "Well, something like that. I 'm to be drill-master, or general, for those tattered battalions down in the jungles. What do you think of the job?" He shrugged his shoulders, and then grinned.
It was a clumsy, wayward mass of men, and frequent revolts from orders occurred, which called forth sharp words from the drill-master. These in turn produced retorts or jokes from the ranks that spoke ill for the discipline, and a foreign officer, taking the superficial aspect, would have laughed to think that such a system could make soldiers.
If the drill-master permit carelessness, then, authority alone can force the men through the evolutions; but if he insist on the greatest precision, they return to their task every morning, for twenty years, with fresh and increasing interest. What precision, permit me to ask, is possible in "putting up" a heavy dumb-bell?
The majority of the Hollanders who fought with the Boers were in the country when the war was begun, and they made a practical demonstration of their belief in the Boer cause by going into the field with the first commandos. The Dutch corps was under the command of Commandant Smoronberg, the former drill-master of the Johannesburg Police.
Wye descended with a hop, sprang astride a chair, and clattered around the room, imitating his drill-master. "Attention! By the right of batteries, break into sections, trot. Mar-r-rch! Attention-n-n! By section from the right of batteries front into column. Mar-r-rch!"
She quite agreed with him, praised and encouraged him, then she criticised his slovenly deportment, showed him with comical gravity how a warrior ought to stand and walk, called herself his drill-master, and was delighted at the zeal with which he strove to imitate her. In such play the hours passed quickly.
I do not propose to offer my services as drill-master, but I am authorized to say that a gentleman whom you have all seen, Mr. Henry Morton, is willing to give instruction till you are sufficiently advanced to get along without it." John Haynes, who felt disappointed at not having been called upon to preside over the meeting, determined to make as much trouble as possible.
Take it from me, Corporal Barrow, the wise drill-master doesn't use any rough talk once a week, and not even then unless nothing else will answer. Talk to the men right along as I heard you doing, and they won't have a particle of respect for you. That being the case, you cannot teach them anything that it will be worth their while to know.
One absurd idea possesses me that Singleton will have the Legion now; and he's a slack drill-master he is, indeed!... I've a million things to think of an idle life to consider, a misspent career to repent, but the time is too short, Ormond.... Perhaps all that will come at the instant of of " "Death," I said, wearily. "Yes, yes; that's it, death. I'm no coward; I'm calm enough but I'm stunned.
The commissioner was actually glad to meet Tripe in the circumstances. If the man should suppose that because Sir Roland Samson and a judge of appeal engaged in a three-cornered conversation with him at a garden party, therefore either of them would speak to the maharajah's drill-master when next they should meet in public, he might guess again, that was all.
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