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As they wound around and over the hills in front, they saw the "reserves," the "grand guard," and finally the pickets with their reserves drawn in, packed up ready for marching, and waiting for their regiments to come up, when they would fall-in. "There's a h l's mint of deviling, tormenting rebel cavalry out there beyond the hills," they called out to the regiment. "Drop onto 'em, and mash 'em.
Such things were, and are; but I would n't advise you to count upon the institution as a neat and easy escape from the Adamic penalty. You might fall-in. Hence Moriarty's personal reluctance in the matter was perfectly natural. The meal at the hut, and the pannikin of dust at the store, are two widely different things.
"When a soldier is not in a position to salute in the ordinary way " "I say," inquired Bobby Little rather shyly, "do you ever look the other way when you meet a Tommy?" "How do you mean?" asked everybody. "Well, the other day I met one walking out with his girl along the road, and I felt so blooming de trop that " Here the "fall-in" sounded, and this delicate problem was left unsolved. But Mr.
The thin trickle of water had been overpassed, churned, trampled into mire and dirt, by half the army, horse and foot. The men stared in blank disappointment. "A polecat couldn't drink here!" "Try it up and down," said the colonel. "It will be clearer away from the road. But every one of you listen for the Fall-In." Steve wandered off. He did not wait for clean water.
The "Fall-in!" whistle was blown and we were a bit surprised as well as amazed to see our strange friend fall in in front, still chewing vigorously; he evidently didn't know or didn't care a damn whether it was against the rules to chew tobacco when parading.
At mess that evening the Adjutant announced that the Commander-in-Chief was coming down next morning, and there would be a Field Day on the Fox Hills. They were to be brigaded at half-past five, so the "Fall-in" would be at five. "We are sure to be back about one," said Strachan to Harry later in the evening. "You can wait till then, and have lunch."
How could a man travel forward from rustic deer-poaching to such tragedy-writing, and not fall-in with sorrows by the way? Or, still better, how could a man delineate a Hamlet, a Coriolanus, a Macbeth, so many suffering heroic hearts, if his own heroic heart had never suffered? And now, in contrast with all this, observe his mirthfulness, his genuine overflowing love of laughter!
"They are too much frightened to come out of their houses. To-morrow we shall get plenty of men. The consul told me to go with you as interpreter." "Thank goodness for that," the captain said. "I was wondering how I was going to get them to understand me. Tell them to fall-in two and two and follow."
Number one only got about three notes start, when a second began, and presently the whole air was full of plaintive sound. Then flickers of fire shone out, and coffee was boiled, and the men got their breakfasts. Then, after a while, the Fall-in sounded, and the different corps and detachments stood to their arms.
There is a good bit of luck in having the questions you have crammed set, you know." "I can imagine there must be. And how about Strachan?" "Well, if he has not got a good bit in hand, I am not in it, that's all. He could give me a hundred marks and a beating. However, I fancy that he must be safe. But there is the Fall-in; I must be off." As Kavanagh left the tent Strachan came into it.
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