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"Well, what's that?" asked Lumsden, thinking that he was going to drive some desperate bargain. "I'll enlist on one condition," replied Dilawur, "and that is, I must be let off doing the goose-step. I really can't stand about on one leg, a laughing-stock amongst a lot of recruits." "Oh, nonsense," laughed Lumsden; "you'll have to begin at the beginning, like everyone else.
But not the less pitiful is it to see men of thirty undergoing the goose-step, and tortured by orders as to the proper mode of handling a long instrument which is half gun and half spear. In the days of Hector and Ajax, the thing was done in a more picturesque manner; and the songs of battle should, I think, be confined to those ages.
C. alone in town, and preparing for the War Ministry by practising the goose-step. Telegraph, if possible, that you are coming, and believe me yours, Irishmen may reasonably enough travel for climate, they need scarcely go abroad in search of scenery.
He pointed again to Marco, who had not moved, but stood still at attention. "Look at him!" he said. "He knows enough to stand where he's put until he's ordered to break line. He's a soldier, he is not a raw recruit that don't know the goose-step. He's been in barracks before." But after this outburst, he deigned to go on. "Here's the oath," he said.
Once, as we started, we stretched our arms high and stood on tiptoe to relieve the stiffness of our joints; and immediately found ourselves clutched on every side by a score of hands. "Gad! We seem to have made an impression!" Harry grinned. On the way down the passage we marched with the Prussian goose-step, and felt the blood quickening to life in our legs and arms.
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