Modify it to suit yourself, and my lads shall still be superior.

They won't eat, they won't drink--don't need those things; they won't wink for cash at gambling dens and unlicensed rum-holes, they won't spark the scullery maids; and moreover the bands of toughs that ambuscade them on lonely beats, and cowardly shoot and knife them will only damage the uniforms and not live long enough to get more than a momentary satisfaction out of that." "Why, Colonel, if you can furnish policemen, then of course--" "Certainly--I can furnish any line of goods that's wanted.

Take the army, for instance--now twenty-five thousand men; expense, twenty-two millions a year.

I will dig up the Romans, I will resurrect the Greeks, I will furnish the government, for ten millions a year, ten thousand veterans drawn from the victorious legions of all the ages--soldiers that will chase Indians year in and year out on materialized horses, and cost never a cent for rations or repairs.

The armies of Europe cost two billions a year now--I will replace them all for a billion.