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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Somebody jumped at me and sat on my head in the ditch. I couldn't get up. And then some blackguard cut the ropes of the guard-tent. I couldn't see who it was. He cut off directly the tent went down." Private Jones further expressed a wish that he could find the chap. When he did, there would, he hinted, be trouble in the old homestead. The tent was beginning to disgorge its prisoners.
At daybreak the drummer's call was beat by the drums of the guard-tent. Frank, though once so profound a sleeper, had learned to wake instantly at the sound; and, before any of his comrades were astir, he snatched up his drum, and hurried from the tent. That call was a signal for all the drummers to assemble before the colors of the regiment, and beat the reveillé.
"It'll be the worse for you fellows that you ever confined me, no matter by whose order; but as for that stuck-up prig, by ! you'll see soon enough what'll come of his ordering me into the guard-tent." His voice is so hoarse and loud with anger that the colonel's attention is attracted.
I thought that story was going to be a long one that would take half an hour to get through. But it collapsed. Like that guard-tent." "About that tent business," said Kennedy. "Of course that was all rot what I was saying just now. I suddenly remembered that I didn't particularly want anybody but you to hear what I was going to say, so I had to invent any rot that I could think of."
Being caught meant not only several days in the guard-tent, but the loss of the chance of "stripes." There was really not much excitement in the town and many of us just stayed late for the excitement of breaking the law without being caught. It was the outbreak of our personality after being mere cogs in a drill-machine all day.
The guard-tent row, as far as the bulk of camp was concerned, lasted exactly two days; at the end of which period it was generally agreed that all that could be said on the subject had been said, and that it was now a back number.
That was what Perry wanted to know. "When it's not a ghastly sweat," he concluded, "it's slow. Like it is now. Can't we do something for a change?" "As a matter of fact," said Walton, "nearly all the best rags are played out. A chap at a crammer's told me last holidays that when he was at camp he and some other fellows loosed the ropes of the guard-tent. He said it was grand sport." Perry sat up.
He was still struggling when a muffled roar of indignation from the direction of the guard-tent broke the stillness of the summer night. The roar swelled into a crescendo. What seemed like echoes came from other quarters out of the darkness. The camp was waking. The noise from the guard-tent waxed louder. The unknown marauder rose from his seat on Private Jones, and vanished.
A guard consists of a sergeant, a corporal, and ten men. They are on duty for two hours at a time, with intervals of four hours between each spell, in which intervals they sleep the sleep of tired men in the guard-tent, unless, as happened on the occasion previously described, some miscreant takes it upon himself to loose the ropes.
Orderly Officer. Bong swar. Once more heads and hips droop. They pose in attitudes of sleep like a dormitory of small boys on the approach of a prefect. The line Guard comes to life, seizes his lantern and commences to march up and down as if salvation depended on his getting in so many laps to the hour. From the guard-tent a trumpet wails, "Lights out."
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