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O yes, they have sharp ears, those drill-masters. As you know, speaking Yiddish was considered a great breach of discipline, which never passed unpunished. It always meant a whipping. So I had made myself guilty of two offenses. On that day I did not go home empty-handed: I got an order to report the next morning to receive my twenty lashes.
"The others are first-rate though a heap of them are powerfully young." "Thar's Billy Maydew, for instance," said Sairy. "Sho! Billy is too young to go " "All the cadets have gone from Lexington, remarked the man on horseback. They've gone to Richmond to act as drill-masters every boy of them with his head as high as General Washington's! I was at Lexington and saw them go.
The Governor of Virginia had informed the Superintendent of the Institute that he should need the services of the more advanced classes as drill-masters, and that they must be prepared to leave for Richmond, under the command of Major Jackson, at a moment's notice.
Several old cavalrymen had come among the dozens of green hands, so had a small squad transferred by War Department orders from West Point. Among these men were competent drill-masters, and among the drill-masters the most active and efficient was the Saxon soldier, Sergeant Wolf. Mr.
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