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tians?” (The almost fanatical ab-
stention of the New Army, from ordinary military crimes often gave
hour 50 per cent, of the kerbstone zealots have been successfully frozen Dearest of all illusions to the mind into the bars. The rest stare at each! of the infant New Army was the Ol other with a wild surmise. Rumour Army still at that time the demigodshakes her wings and begins to fly host of an nishattered legend of round. The sergeant major she says, Mons. To the new recruits any old is holding a species of court in the Regular sergeant was more-if the depths of the pub; some privates world can hold more than a county with money upon them, children of cricketer is to a small boy at school, this world, are pressing in, she says, He had the talisman; be was a ves el- even now, into that heart of the rose fail of the race by which everything and with a few manly words are was to be saved: like a king. he standing the great man the extremely could "touch for "
expensive combination of nectars malady of unsoldierliness. How that he prefers. "Were it not better Cone as others use ?"-the Spartan re- could be err, now. that the fate of
sidum on the kerb is diminishing. a world hung upon him?
There was something in that. Ko Another hour goes; only an incon doubt there always is, in illusions. siderable remnant of Spartans is left; They are not delusions. The pick of these are exchanging profane the old N.C.O.'s of the Regular Arty marks about patriotism and other were packed as tight as bits of radium virtues.
some scandal to many experts drawn with virtues and powers. A man of famous fifty-Eve who came back to the army whese footman he was before he from the Old. They regarded it with from spending ten years in a farcical enlisted I believe we shall win; in perplexity and suspicion. The pheno- uniform, whistling for taxis outside spite of the old Regular Army menon was really simple, the men a flash music-ball, would teach every When just enough time is left to being in vanic fer of getting left. rank in a battalion its duties for march back to quarters, the whistle behind in England of their unit should 4s. 8d. a-day, coaching the dug-out is blown, the men sleuch into their suddenly be sent abroad. While the colonel in the new infantry drill, places and stamp unrhythmically gilded youth tries to explain, with the field officers in court-martial home, revolving many things, accor¡ out a lapse from tact that the ranks procedure, the chaplain in details of ding to their several natures. A are good enough for himself he feels drum-head worship, the medical child who has rashly taken its parenta regal scorn beat down on him like officer in the order of sick parades, on trust, and yet more rashly taken a vertical sun. A fulmination follows: Then what the 'ell did you ever the subalterns and N.C.O.'s in camp
the parent's all-round perfection es!
come to me for " 'Op off! Out of economy, field hygiene, and what some sort of sample and proof of a not, and always bolding the attention creditable government of the world.
good deal of - The youth retires, feeling that he of a man or a mess or a battalion must have fixed fast by the magic of his own
mental rearrangement to do..the has somehow strayed into a black first time- the parent comes list. He talks it over with a friend. oaken character, his simple, vivid home Fall of liquor and sells the The friend, be finds, has heard some mind, his passion for getting things furniture to get some more. right, and his bumorous and patient knowledge of mankind. Even such minor masterpieces as average! Goards
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thing like it from somebody else. Perhaps, in another company or Ribald bes are soon flying abour- another battalion, some man of, "Four pound a stripe!" "Stripes are ex-sergeant majors were relative wealth has felt, in the ris' to-day "Corporals, three for rather god-like on parade. In drill, strength of his youth and the heat a tenner" The story goes that a of his zeal, that he wants more to do. little "Scotch draper," the worst drill at any rate, they bad the circum. He longs to get on with the job. So in a section, has felt that in this new- stantial vision and communicable fire
he guilelessly goes to his own serly revealed world his professional of the prophets. Early in 1915 a geant major and asks him if there is credit for tactful effrontery is at Hittle famished London cab tout, a recruit, s:ll rectilinear as a starved a chance of getting some lessons in stake: he has bet a fiver that he will cat, even after a month of army bayonet fighting anywhere in the offer the bare market price of a lance Jack" rations, was to be heard praying town. The sergeant major sizes him recommendation for softly at right in his cot that he with a stare. You're a fine and bring the thing off; might be made like unto one of likely man," he says "for a stripe." enterprise has prospered and the He stares harder. Or three," he architect of his own fortunes is subjoins.
wearing the stripe, spending his
these, whom be named.
Where did the first shiver of dis-
the
illusion begin? Perhaps with some The gilded youth is confounded. pound balanced on the transaction, trivial incident. Say, a company, He an NC.O! He would as soon commanding his brettiren, and enjoy: cuartered in a great fown, was sent bave thought of being a Primate: ing his new dispensation from fati- cut for a long afternoon's marching."I'll give you," the Old Army congues. The band, of brothers begin Only Through long, steady grinds can tinues, the lessons myself. It'll be to look at each other with some the finer rhythm of marching, like twelve quid-for the lot." The em circumspection. They wonder. How that of rowing, be generated at last. phasis on the last three words is far does the dirty work go? Who The men, youthfully eager to kiss all beyond the resources of typography.may not try it on next? And did possible rods and endure any obtain The gilded youth may feel a slight not somebody say he had seen the able hardness, march forth in high pricking in his thumbs. Still, there stuff pass between the contractor state of delight they are going to is no overt crook in the deal. The who emptied the zwill tubs and the learn how-to march to Berlin. No teaching is sure to be good. And sergeant cook who filed them with
half-legs of mutton? cficer "being present, a sergeant he has the cash, and an inexact that shorter creed to which the ser major is in command. For twenty sense of values. So he agrees geants mess waiters said that the minutes he leads his 250 adorers. The senior man-at-arm expresses Regular sergeants always recurred in into the thick of a populons a preference for ready money their cups Stick together, boys. quarter: Then he orders them to: Agreed, too. Affer one lesson
What was
fall out. A public house, resemble the tutor is frankly bored by his and "Anything can be wangled in the army? And what about ing Bockingham Palace, but smaller, tutorial function. "Kang it," he says, is near. Most of the men, in their what's the sense of you and me officers? That new company com ardour, stand about on the kerb, sweatin' our oly guts opt? You've mander who started in as a raptain, ready to leap back to their places as paid, and you'll find I won't bilk you" word of command on parade without bat never could give the simplest soon as the whistle shall sound. A Youth is mystified; feels it is getting his sergeant major to give him the few thirsty souls jostle burriedly into somewhat short weight. But what words like a parson doing, amar the bars, where they find that arrange are acolytes against bigh priests? ments for serving a multitude are Youth leaves it at that. In two orage? What about little Y who surprisingly complete. Soon they are three weeks the fustrated pupil is suddenly got a commission when he further reassured by descrying the sent for by his frustrator. A man is ing on parade with a dirty neck? I was doing a fortnight's C-B. for com- sergeant major's handsome form, wanted for Post Corporal, or even for How much of the timbers are rotten? like Tam o'Shanter's, "planted unco Battalion Provost Sergeant. - What right" in a chair in an inner holy of would the gilded youth say to the job? Enough to bring down the whole hplies, along with the landlord. This On his saying nothing at first, the men's new suspicion Deers about; in house?. Bere, there, everywhere, the esoteric session has an air of per- sergeant major, with swiftly rising the dark and the half-light. The brew anence; the sergeant major is contempt fer such friarly besitancy that bewilders and rather, ferrihes evidently au mieux with the mana recites the beauties of this piece of British statesmen to-day has begun gement. The thirsty souls settle prefermenta: "Cushieet "job" in dower to their been to the "ole outfit |- Long as From any-English", training camp, Five minutes, twenty, half an hour you're sober enough to stand about that time, you almost seemed pass, fairly fast for them, less fast for up at the Stall Parade of a night, to see a light steam rising, as it does they keener warriors pawing the that's all there is to it. Where'd the from a damp horse. This was illu kerbstone without At the end of an crime be among yo karia. Ision, STRDOTESNEK
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