Perhaps it would be more becoming, though, to say 'Ours,' for we are all in it." "I should rather imagine that it would," growled he of the golf stockings, now joining in the conversation.

"And, 'Rollo in Disguise,' suppose you present us to your friend; for, if I am not mistaken, he is a gentleman of whom I have heard and would like much to meet." "Of course you would," responded Rollo, "and I beg your pardon for not having introduced you at once; but in times of war, you know, one is apt to neglect the amenities of a more peaceful existence.

Mr.Norris, allow me to present my friend and pupil in the art of football-playing--" "Oh, come off," laughed the big man.
"Pupil, as I was saying when rudely interrupted," continued Rollo, "Mr.
Mark Gridley." "Not Gridley, the famous quarter-back!" exclaimed Ridge, holding out his hand.
"That's him," replied Van Kyp.
"And aren't you Norris, the gentleman rider ?" asked Gridley.
"I have ridden," acknowledged Ridge.
"So has this my other friend and fellow-soldier," cried Van Kyp.
"Norris, I want you to know Mr.Silas Pine, of Medora, North Dakota, a bad man from the Bad Lands, a bronco-buster by profession, who has also consented to become a terror to Spaniards in my company." "Have you a company, then ?" asked Ridge, after he had acknowledged this introduction.
"I have--that is, I belong to one; but, in the sense you mean, you must not use the word company.

That is a term common to 'doughboys,' who, as you doubtless know, are merely uniformed pedestrians; but we of the cavalry always speak of our immediate fighting coterie as a 'troop.' Likewise the 'battalion' of the inconsequent doughboy has for our behoof been supplanted by the more formidable word 'squadron,' to show that we are _de jure_ as well as _de facto_ men of war.

Sabe ?" "Then you are really in the cavalry ?" asked Ridge, while laughing at this nonsense.
"Yes, I really am, or rather I really shall be when I get there; for though enlisted and sworn in, we haven't yet joined or been sworn at." "What is your regiment ?" "You mean our 'command.' Why, didn't I tell you?
'Teddy's Terrors,' Roosevelt's Rough Riders.