They would call it punishment for malingering--or some such name.

If they take it into their heads to have you all shot, doubt not they will shoot!" "Yet in that case," said I, "we should not be traitors." "I will tell you a story," said he, and we held our breath to listen, for this was his old manner.

This had ever been his way of putting recruits at ease and of making a squadron understand.

In that minute, for more than a minute, men forgot they had ever suspected him.
"When I was a little one," said he, "my mother's aunt, who was an old hag, told me this tale.

There was a pack of wolves that hunted in a forest near a village.