Sergeant Morrison is taking his discharge at the end of the week.

He is a married man with a helpful little wife.

I was telling him of the offer that you had made me, and he asked me what I would take for the cabaret.

It is a good business, and having a wife he could manage it better than I can.

I said that if he had a fancy for it I would rather that he took it than another; and he would do better than a Frenchman would, for the lads would not care for the place unless it was kept by one of the regiment.