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He proceeded at once to Rome, and by adding his voice to that of Fabius in the Senate, in blame of Scipio's unspeakable waste of money, and his childish and unsoldierly love of the public games and the theatre, conduct more worthy of the president of a public festival than of the commander-in-chief of an army, prevailed upon the people to send tribunes to enquire into the charges against him, and if they proved true, to bring him back to Rome.
Wear the exact uniform prescribed by your commanding officer, whether you are on duty or off duty. Never wear a mixed uniform, as, for instance, a part of the service uniform with the blue uniform. Never wear any part of the uniform with civilian clothes. It is very unsoldierly, for example, to wear a civilian overcoat over the uniform or to wear the uniform overcoat over a civilian suit.
"Listen at them spalpeens wastin' powdher," the corporal exclaimed once, wroth at this unsoldierly practice. "Must they have twenty thrys to hit a big black buffalo? Just lemme git 'em into the gyard house wunst agin time they git out they'll be fit to worship the outside o' the dure; it'll look so strange an' good to 'm."
His legs were like pipe-stems, his body was like a board, but he was straight enough, not unsoldierly, nor so bad to look at when his back was on you; but when he showed his face you had little pleasure in him. It seemed made of brown putty, the nose was like india-rubber, and the eyes had that dull, sullen look of a mongrel got of a fox-terrier and a bull- dog.
He also carries a bottle of liquid for damping the respirator. In the flap of his jacket is sewn a field dressing. Slung behind him is an entrenching tool. Any other space upon his person is at his own disposal, and he may carry what he likes, except "unsoldierly trinkets" whatever these may be.
But Braddock had no knowledge of savage warfare. To fight in such a manner seemed to him shocking. It was unsoldierly; it was cowardly. So he swore savagely at his men, calling them cowards, and beat them back into line with the flat of his sword. And thus huddled together they stood a brilliant, living target for the bullets of the savages. Braddock himself fought with fury.
His face was pale, his teeth set, and his eyes shone with excitement. He called out in a strange, forced voice to his men and boys on the roof of the cars: "Here, you fellers git down off'en thar and form a line." The fellows did so, in a slow, constrained, frightened ways and huddled together, in the most unsoldierly manner.
The most wonderful part of it all was that they had no sense of their danger and of the destruction they were inviting by their unsoldierly course. "I tried to impress these dangers on one or two, but the reply was, 'Oh, hang it! The Rebs are as badly used up as we are. Don't you see things are growing more quiet? Give us a rest!
And then my rescuers, or else my newer captors, picked me up hastily; and I was hoisted behind the saddle of the nearest, and so was borne away in all the hue and cry of a most unsoldierly retreat. As you have guessed before you turned this page, the men who charged so opportunely to cut me out of peril were my captors only in the saving sense.
But! if there's a man here who doesn't yet know the difference between a soldierly discontent and unsoldierly grumbling I want him to GO! Kincaid's Battery is not for him. Let him transfer to infantry or cavalry. Oh, I know it's only that you want to be in the very first fight, and that's all right! But what we can't get we don't grumble for in Kincaid's Battery!" He paused.
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