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Updated: April 30, 2025
Phil Squod, with the aid of a brush and paint-pot, is employed in the distance whitening the targets, softly whistling in quick-march time and in drum-and-fife manner that he must and will go back again to the girl he left behind him. "Phil!" The trooper beckons as he calls him.
"About-turrn! quick-march!" growled again the bass voice of the senior non-com; and he kept step behind George into the passage. "Here's your transport requisition, Redmond. Now take a tumble to yourself, my lad on this detachment. You're getting what 'Father' don't give to many a second chance. Good-bye!" George gripped the proffered hand and looked full into the kindly, meaning eyes.
Keep an eye on both. The remainder form two-deep. Right turn! By the left, quick-march! Left wheel!... Now," he said, turning to Juggut Khan, "if you'll come along I'll soon get a horse for you!"
Even as he spoke, the sound of distant firing fell upon the ears of the party and the unmistakable stammer-hammer racket of the maxim. "They're attacked, by Jove," he cried. "I thought it likely. There may have been an idea that we should know something of this convoy and go for it. All ready? Now a steady double. We'll double and quick-march alternately. Double march."
Out with it, then! let my colours be displayed that it may be seen whether they are genuine or not." It is true that Strauss's style generally maintains a happy medium between this sort of merry quick-march and the other funereal and indolent pace; but between two vices one does not invariably find a virtue; more often rather only weakness, helpless paralysis, and impotence.
'Remember: no firing at all; nothing but the bayonet; and follow the officers in! QUICK-MARCH! and the four dense columns came out of the wood, drew clear of it altogether, and advanced with steady tramp, their muskets at the shoulder and their bayonets gleaming with a deadly sheen under the fierce, hot, noonday sun.
Someone else had received the rifle containing the blank cartridge, but my mind was at ease, there was no blood of a Tommy on my hands. "Order-Arms! About-Turn! Pile-Anns! Stand-Clear." The stacks were re-formed. "Quick-March! Right-Wheel'" and we left the scene of execution behind us. It was now daylight.
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