But in describing that young soldier's uniform, I forgot something, Mr.Prescott.

That young soldier, or officer, or whatever he was, beside the two yellow V's, had a white stripe near the hem of his cuff." "Just one white stripe ?" queried Dick.
"Just one, I am sure." "Then that one white stripe would show that the corporal, before entering the cavalry, had served one complete enlistment in the infantry." "Oh, this is simply incomprehensible!" cried the new pastor's wife in comical dismay.

"I am certain that I could never learn to know all these things." "It is a little confusing at first," smiled Dick's mother with another show of pride.

"But I think I am beginning to understand quite a lot of it." Mrs.Davidson went out of the bookstore conducted by Dick's parents in the little city of Gridley.

Dick sighed a bit wearily.
"Why don't Americans take a little more pains to understand things American ?" he asked his mother, with a comical smile.