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Dawson, and do some hard thinking." "I prefer to stand, my lord. When I want to think I do a bit of sentry-go." "So do I!" exclaimed the First Lord.
'Yes, sir. Just a accident. Well, not precisely a accident neither, sir. I be what the War Office calls "a headquarter troop," and do odd jobs behind the lines. Sometimes I dig graves, and other times I be a officer's servant, and likewise do a turn o' sentry-go.
I don't THINK very well yet, though Keredec is trying to teach me. My thoughts don't run in order, and this that's happened seems to make them wilder, queerer " He stopped short. "What has happened?" He paused in his sentry-go, facing me, and answered, in a low voice: "I've seen her again." "Yes, I know." "She told me you knew it," he said, " that she had told you." "Yes."
What shall we do go to sleep now?" "Go to sleep?" growled the boy irritably. "Go to wake you mean! I tell you what I am just fit for." "Well, what?" said Pen good-humouredly. "Sentry-go. No fear of anybody catching me asleep who came on his rounds. I used to think that was the very worst part of being a soldier, but I could just enjoy it now. 'Tis miserable work, though, isn't it?"
He at least pretended to pass an excellent night. The pretence was forced upon him by Stair Garland camping outside, his rifle ready to his hand, and the ceaseless patter of Whitefoot's alert sentry-go going round and round the hut. By half-past five the day was beginning to come. Stair entered the Bothy, shook Eben by the shoulder and bade him prepare breakfast.
And yet the curious thing is, the fellow has an excellent record, I believe." "That proves nothing," said the Colonel; "I've had a fellow in my battalion found sleeping at his post on sentry-go, a fellow I could have sworn by. And you know what the punishment for that is.
"And a more or less uncomfortable bunk. Come down and see what you can make of it as an abiding-place for the night." "And and you? Can't we rig up anything for you?" Magda looked round her vaguely. "I shan't sleep. I'll do sentry-go on deck" laughing. "It wouldn't do for us both to go comfortably asleep and get run down without even having a shot at making our presence known!"
"Don't you remember hailing me, sir, when I was on sentry-go?" "No." "Nor me telling you to mind the crocs didn't try to come aboard your boat?" "No. What are you talking about?" "Oh, my word!" sighed Peter. "Here's a pretty go! Talk about a poor fellow being off his chump!" Then aloud, as he felt the lad's hand feebly feeling for his, "It was like this 'ere, sir.
London, 1898. Arrived, and without a moment to rest or ease their belts, these weary, but stout-hearted fellows went straight on outpost duty, that 27th of July, 1897, and spent the livelong night, not in sleep, or even a quiet turn of sentry-go, but in a desperate hand to hand fight with swarms of brave and persistent warriors.
On the night before camp broke up, a second incident of a sensational kind occurred, which, but for the fact that they never heard of it, would have given the schools a good deal to talk about. It happened that Kennedy was on sentry-go that night. The manner of sentry-go is thus. At seven in the evening the guard falls in, and patrols the fringe of the camp in relays till seven in the morning.
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