"This is only the morning of the first day, and we have before us months--years--of taking our medicine.

Don't lose the gait even before you've got it.

We came here to take our medicine and learn to be soldiers, didn't we ?" "Squad, attention!" rasped out Corporal Brayton, wheeling and once more favoring his own green lot with his whole regard.
Repeatedly he showed these new men how to stand, how to hold themselves and how to do it without appearing ridiculous.

So crisp, so rapping and even decorously abusive was Mr.Brayton that the boys under his command at this moment would have gasped had they been told that Brayton was considered one of the easiest and best-natured of the cadet corporals.

Brayton had his work to do--that was all.